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To: syriacus
Isn't it funny.....
* Kennedy didn't need to find WMDs to justify going into Vietnam
* Clinton didn't need to find WMDs in the former Yugoslavia and
* Truman didn't need to find WMDs in Korea.

And isn't it even funnier that not one of those was justified?

But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....--John Quincy Adams

36 posted on 01/02/2007 3:16:08 PM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

I was a pacifist for almost 30 years, so I think I can look at wars fairly objectively.


37 posted on 01/02/2007 3:21:36 PM PST by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years under Democrat Truman (Jul, 1950 - Dec, 1952))
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