Janis Karpinski Quotes

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

The concept of military readiness is well understood, but readiness for what happens after the fighting stops is just as important.

To suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations ceased, I don’t think is accurate…. We will in fact be greeted as liberators.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Nothing can justify war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We must take the profit out of war.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

I'm against all war.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.