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04/19/2002 Archived Entry: "It's all bad"
A few thought provoking quotes (from various different articles) in the Globe and Mail this morning:
"We've all heard some of the first reports, and it sounds... almost inconceivable that certain things could happen this way" - US General Richard Meyers chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"The early reports that one gets are always changed... They're always wrong" - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
"I'm sure a lot of people there are in the mode of shoot first and ask questions later" - David Steigman, a former military officer who is now an analyst with Teal Group, a Virginia-based avaiation consullting company
"Look, the point is, of course, that accidents happen, that war is confusion writ large... The wonder is that anything goes right" - Jack Granastein, military historian and former director of the Canadian War Museum
"I'm not sure there's any difference between friendly fire and hostile fire. It's all bad." - US 191st Ordnance Battalion chaplain Terry Jarvis
"We play with stuff that kills people" - unidentified US military spokesman [emphasis added]
It makes you wonder why we pay to let them play with their deadly toys.