A few quotes that tell it all

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of 
death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from 
Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of 
industry and technology has been the mass production of human 
corpses.
Edward Abbey

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the 
revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world 
declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and 
militarism.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, 
and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out 
of ten, but murder in uniform?
Douglas Jerrold

Just as revealing:

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, 
what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I 
waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
George W Bush's mother Barbara on ABC Good Morning 
America, March 18, 2003