"If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis."

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"If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis."

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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

War, Ethics, Death, Humanity

"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Regret, Today, Future

"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

War, Evil, Survival, Destruction

"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."

Charles Krauthammer, American Journalist

War, Doves, Iraq

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers, American Actor

War, Civilization

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

Ronald Reagan, American President

War, Violence, World

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living, World, World war

"It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living

"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

Victor Hugo, French Author

War, Men, Brothers

"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility."

Media, Credibility, Now

"When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do."

People, Americans, Iraq, Right

"If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis."

War, Right

"A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition."

Being, Democrats, Dying, Eyes

"A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics."

Politics, Cosmos

"The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans."

Time, Idea, Americans, Majority

"The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country."

War, Country, Media, World

"Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated."

Thought, People, Being

"I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get."

Truth, Popular

"By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?"

Time, War, Act, Office