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Roger Normand: Bomb now. Die later.

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

You bring young men together.. put them in a confined space.. and then give them a license to kill .

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in which marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.

I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground. Whitehead is a political conservative.

I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the last man to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.

Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. Ojibway Tribe.

There was false propaganda by the administration that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.

Our commander said the Viet Cong are farmers by day.. guerillas by night. Look for those who are tired. So anyone who yawned was getting popped.

Bring to a boil Add oil Then bomb Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penalties have been caused by .. depleted uranium 80 times the normal level.. which has generated cancer in Iraqis as well as Italian American and other troops . compulsory vaccines from the warprofiteering pharmaco-military industrial complex . Lariam, ostensibly antimalarial drug made by Roche which have killed 4 wives whose husbands had drug caused rage. . heat rising to 137 degrees and melting soap as well as turning metal soda pop cans on a loading dock into chambers in which Nutra Sweet becomes more toxic . Baghdad Boils, face lesions, blamed on sand flies... food poisoning deaths from heat on military packagedmeals . ' friendly fire' . lack of protective gear . helicopter malfunctions in Chinook, Osprey and Black Hawk helicopters . underfunded hospital system . those hostile to the invaders and occupiers of their own Iraq.

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Show.

The mask is dropped... They died for Halliburton.