Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Bring it on?

George W Bush, 2 July 2003:

Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice. There are some who feel like if they attack us, we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about if that's the case. There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.