Peter DeFazio Quotes
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
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I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
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I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. … Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years - I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
