A Lesson in Contrast

“I would send troops back into Iraq”
Rick Perry, 07 January 2012

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
Benjamin Franklin

“War is Hell.”
William Tecumseh Sherman

“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
William Westmoreland

“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
William Tecumseh Sherman

“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.”
Robert E. Lee

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
George McGovern