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Mark Shields

"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."

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"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

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"All war is based on deception."

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"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

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"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!"
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"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence."
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