In 1898, Harvard Professor William James, brother of Novelist Henry, wrote of the craze for war against Spain, "It must come, to relieve the tension. The 'people' are really crazy for it now, for its own sake." The "absolutely insincere villains" who brought this about include "those of the New York Journal (a Harvard graduate millionaire named Hearst) and World [who] ought to be hung higher than any criminals." Quoted in Evan Thomas, THE WAR LOVERS (2010) at page 252.
The same has been suggested with regard to George W. Bush vis a vis the current Iraq War.
Let's add Sarah Palin and her irresponsible PAC to this list of criminals, shall we?
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