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when is a dove not a dove?

I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. —Woodrow Wilson, 1913

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: You boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1939

We are not about to send American boys 9,000 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. —Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

We should give President Nixon our backing and support. —Jimmy Carter, 1973

Our objectives are clear. Our forces are strong, and our cause is right. —Bill Clinton, regarding the 1998 deployment of U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf.


The Democrats and War

originally posted by zagg