Food For Thought
I know, I know...a lame replacement for a real blog entry, but I just really had to share these with our readers. Yes, I'm talking to all three of you.
Thanks to Larry for these two precious gems.
"Why, of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally the common people don't want war, neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor, for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-Herman Goering, Hitler's Air Marshal
"There is no way in which a country can satisfy the craving for absolute security-but it can bankrupt itself, morally and economically, in attempting to reach that illusionary goal through arms alone...Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
-D.D. Eisenhower
Kinda makes you get a bit nostalgic for a president who could actually grasp the workings of the English language.
Unlike this dipshit (who, I'm sure, is planning the quickest route to a shower after being bribed with extra pretzels by his handlers to hug an African American woman):
Hmmm, a few short quotes of his come to mind:
"I think the intelligent I get is darn good intelligence." July 14, 2003.
"There is no doubt in my mind that this country cannot achieve any objective we put our mind to." April 20, 2004.
"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace." July 25, 2003.
"I want to thank the astronauts who are with us--the, uh, the courageous, uh, spacial entrepreneurs." January 14, 2004.
Apparently, dumbfuckery simply drips from his face hole.
