"Amanda" > wrote in message
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> Roughrider50 wrote:
>> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> > The BUM!!!
>> >
>> > I'd have rather seen him in front of a firing squad!
>> >
>> > Oh well.
>> >
>> > Andy
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
>> degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing
>> is
>> worth war is worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to
>> fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a
>> miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept
>> so
>> by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill
>
> You must be happy about those Iraqi orphans, then. What did they do to
> US or anyone to suffer like that?
>
> Only evil people justify wars as the quotation you gave above. War is
> necessry sometimes but "war for oil" is not a just war.
>

And I suppose that you alone can set the standards for a "just" war?