Garry Trudeau Quotes

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

The pinning on of stars reaches its full cynical significance when sanctified valor and bereaved families are used to lend dignity to wars stupidly fought. The courageous and their families are drawn into a circular trap. The sacrificed soldier was valorous under the orders of a commander who has rewarded his effort. The battle was therefore worth fighting. Courage made it worthwhile. The basic rule of war - that it is fought to be won --- has been forgotten.

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

Soldiers will continue to die in wars that few can convincingly explain why we are fighting.