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[TJ]

_{Original Thread started on: Sep 25th, 2003, 2:08pm By: TJ}

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War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Platon (Plato)

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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Peace is nothing but a result of war.
- Heero Yuy, Gundam Wing

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The first casualty of war is truth.
- Rudyard Kipling

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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise Pascal

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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon

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Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the hearts of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism.
- Martin Luther King
(quoting a Buddhist leader of Vietnam in his 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" speech)

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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with Do Not Like and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Unknown (no, Julius Caesar did not say this)

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What would happen if all profits from this war had to go into the public sector; to provide jobs, health care, infrastructure? If we were really having a war for freedom, isn?t that where the profits should go? - Rose Edington (said in a speech at an anti-war on Iraq protest)
Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them.

[TJ]

« Reply #1 on: Sep 25th, 2003, 2:26pm By: CORKMAN »

NOTE: CorkMan Made This Post Which Was Moved To This Thread
Re: Love Poems/Sayings/Anything Nice
? Reply #15 on: Sep 14th, 2003, 05:30am ?

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I would just like to point out that $300,000,000 was spent in the first 24 hours of the gulf-war.

Now what if that was given to the poor or used to fix roads build more government buildings to create more jobs. phfffffff government these days.

[Blue Thunderbird]

Today In History:
(May 10th)

-- 1774: Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.



-- 1775: Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.


-- 1818: American patriot Paul Revere died in Boston.


-- 1865: Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.


-- 1899: Actor-dancer Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Neb.


-- 1908: The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia.


-- 1924: J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.

-- 1940: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.


-- 1941: Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.


-- 1968: Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.


-- 1994: Former President George H.W. Bush's office released his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association, in which Bush expressed outrage over its reference to federal agents as "jackbooted government thugs."


-- 1994: The state of Illinois executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.


-- 1997: An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.


-- 2000: A fire, set deliberately to clear brush from the path of a wildfire, was driven by high winds into a New Mexico canyon, forcing the evacuation of the 11,000 residents of Los Alamos.


-- 2002: A tense 39-day standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ended with 13 suspected militants flown into European exile and 26 released into the Gaza Strip.


-- 2003: The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud," according to an investigation conducted by the paper.

[Dark Lord]

I love this quote, TJ:

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce (US author & satirist (1842 - 1914))

[Zinkx]

[glow=red,2,300]LMAO..... that is funny ;D[/glow]

[Thorin]

Perhaps today is a good day to Die- worf from star trek