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Curtis Lemay

"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."

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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."

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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
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"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
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"Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
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"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
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