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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Excellent quote, the longer version runs.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war... War settles nothing
Used a lot by the hard left.
It came up on this thread, Ike knew that war settles nothing from the Capital Times from Berkley midwest, the heart of progressivism.
One of the problems I had, as did a couple other freepers, is the attribution of the quote.
As in, it can't be found in primary sources.
I've been told on these threads that Freepers are a bunch of dumbass neocons, Ron Paul and his folk are the source of wisdom, never to be criticized. Thus I've come to realize that there is no one smarter than Ron Paul supporters.
I look forward to the specific source of the quote. Primary source, not blogs.
To give you a head start, if you find an antiwar site that provides a citation, they'll send you to the Ottawa Speech.
Well no, it's not there, but November, 1953, what preemptive war were we considering four months pre Dien Bien Phu?