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johnnyreb

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12. "Our soldiers died for secret agendas of which they knew nothing." -Smedley

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Mon May 25, 2015, 02:58 PM

May 2015

"No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war." —Sun Tzu

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." —President James Madison

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." —General William Tecumseh Sherman

"War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely." —Overview to "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War" by James Risen

"History, we won't know, we'll all be dead." —gwb

Spoken word: War After War.mp3

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