LeeJdarlin'...one thing that would help to bring about such a dream is for the American people to get off their arses and VOTE, esp. if they will vote for someone who does NOT use the negative rhetoric of the Shrub. Sophocleese nailed that one. We hear nothing but fear-mongering from him. As far as he is concerned there is nothing to his presidency but feeding the public a daily dose of FEAR, which is what a bully does to bring about submission. I know you know this and I don't for a minute believe that you, of all people, do all you can to work for war! How absurd!:-)

As far as quote attribution goes, it was Einstein who said:

A country cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war; and,

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service; but, I really like the way Ben Franklin put it:

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.