Rachel Maddow: Quotes about war

Rachel Maddow is American journalist. Explore interesting quotes on war.

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“War is destructive. The idea that you can do something constructive with war is becoming this facile, dangerous, intellectually lax political interpretation of military counter-insurgency theory. I want to hear [President Barack Obama] say that doesn't work. That war is never constructive.”

Rachel Maddow

San Francisco Chronicle (27 March 2009) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=37501

War , Idea

“Dare I say it? Congressional Republicans had a collective war-metaphor-gasm trying to make the president‘s budget seem scary.”

Rachel Maddow

The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, March 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875974/24

War

“So best of luck to the Sea Shadow and its disguise-me ship, which I have to say are the most adorable multimillion dollar bits of scrap heap-bound Cold War ephemera that we have seen in a long time.”

Rachel Maddow

War , Time , Sea

“Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?”

Rachel Maddow

The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (27 February 2009)
NB: From Wikipedia "Memory hole" article: "The memory hole, as in the phrase "Going down the memory hole," refers to a small chute leading to a large incinerator used for censorship in George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four:

War , People , History , Idea