General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed."
President Merkin Muffley: "You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!"
General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
President Merkin Muffley: "I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler."
General "Buck" Turgidson: "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.
Exactly Iron Munro,
Good job.
I remember LBJ going on TV and telling the american people he will not be the first president to lose a war. After that we had 50000 killed and left in disgrace. Not because of the military but by the CIC