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Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.

In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war, everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars; they're not war experts.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.

We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.