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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." — Betrand Russell

COMPOSITE OF ONLY A FEW OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO HAVE DIED IN IRAQ

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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." — General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." — Samuel Johnson "George Bush makes Benedict Arnold look like a patriot. He makes Benedict Arnold look like George Washington. I mean that’s what we have- a criminal and traitor sitting in the White House pretending he is a patriot, wrapping himself in the flag." — Stanley Hilton, Republican, Bob Dole’s former chief of staff "It's not important. Things happen in War." — Bill O'Reilly, on the mutilation of two American soldiers 6/21/06 "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." — Betrand Russell "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." — George W. Bush, New York Daily News 4/23/02 "I really didn't regret [the Iraq war]. I kind of semi-regretted it." — George W. Bush, 3/21/06 "The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything. That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about." — Noam Chomsky "You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm's way." — George W. Bush, presidential debate 9/30/04 "I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure." — George W. Bush 9/23/04 "It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there." — George W. Bush, referring to Iraqi troops. Press conference 9/23/04 "The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like." — George W. Bush, NYC 9/21/04 "Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life." — George W. Bush, 8/9/04 "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." — George W. Bush 5/25/04 "My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate." — George W. Bush 4/21/04 "As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's — ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions — you can't — we're out of sanctions." — George W. Bush, Annandale, VA 8/9/04 "The best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data." — George W. Bush, Washington, DC 12/15/03 "Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty to the people of Iraq." — George W. Bush 12/15/03 "This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed." — George W. Bush 11/6/03 "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the — the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." — George W. Bush 10/27/03 "Whether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves." — George W. Bush 10/8/03 "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." — George W. Bush, Milwaukee, WI 10/3/03 "Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information — outside the administration." — George W. Bush, 9/30/03 "We've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are." — George W. Bush 9/30/03 "I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." — George W. Bush, 10/21/03 "My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific." — George W. Bush, who apparently forgot about World War II. Tokyo, 2/18/02 "And so, in my State of the — my State of the Union — or state — my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation — I asked Americans to give 4,000 years — 4,000 hours over the next — the rest of your life — of service to America. That's what I asked — 4,000 hours." — George W. Bush, 4/9/02