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On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. -- Stephen Harper
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens. -- Walter Dean Myers
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. -- Gustav Krupp
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF? -- Paul Di Filippo
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam. -- Martin Jacques
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. -- Kate Adie
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. -- Dario Fo
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. -- Phil Klay
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens." -- Walter Dean Myers

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