We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children

Howard Zinn
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The tone of this quote is angry and angry is what the American people have been hearing from the politicians and the media about Syria. While no one wants war, if a war comes it will be a war against innocents. We cannot believe that our politicians could be so heartless as to send our young men and women to die in a war that has nothing to do with us.

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