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alwaysinasnit

(5,063 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:45 PM Mar 2018

Chickenhawks

It sure does seem like the most avid warmongers are the ones who have never actually had to face fire.

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/04/to-paraphrase-ronald-reagan-there-he-goes-again-in-tuesdays-opinion-pages-former-un-ambassador-john-r-bolton-weighs-in.html

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Chickenhawks (Original Post) alwaysinasnit Mar 2018 OP

It is easy for them to send other people's sons and daughters into harms way. redstatebluegirl Mar 2018 #1

Too rich to die. Cattledog Mar 2018 #2

General Sherman Quote erpowers Mar 2018 #3

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)

1. It is easy for them to send other people's sons and daughters into harms way.

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Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:46 PM

Mar 2018

Cattledog

(5,914 posts)

2. Too rich to die.

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Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:47 PM

Mar 2018

erpowers

(9,350 posts)

3. General Sherman Quote

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Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:11 PM

Mar 2018

General William T. Sherman is reported to have said, "I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”

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