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Curtis Emerson LeMay foi um general da Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos e candidato a vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos, em 1968, pelo Partido Independente Americano, na chapa do ex-governador do Alabama, George Wallace, seu comandado durante a II Guerra Mundial.

LeMay era um dos grandes 'falcões' das forças armadas norte-americanas, tendo servido na II Guerra como planejador e implementador do programa tático de bombardeios aéreos no teatro do Pacífico, Depois da guerra, durante a Guerra Fria, ele foi o principal organizador da ponte aérea para Berlim, no período em que ela teve seu acesso por terra bloqueado pelos soviéticos, e reorganizou o Comando Aéreo Estratégico , dotando-o de meios efetivos de levar a cabo uma guerra nuclear. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Novembro 1906 – 1. Outubro 1990
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Curtis LeMay: Frases em inglês

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.”

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Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). <i>The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon</i>, p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.

“My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces.”

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Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565. In an interview two years after the publication of this book, General LeMay said, "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides"; reported in The Washington Post (October 4, 1968), p. A8. Many years later LeMay would claim that this was his ghost writer's overwriting.

“I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war…”

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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 559.

“China has The Bomb. […] Sometime in the future--25, 50, 75 years hence--what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too. That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.”

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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 561.

“Apply whatever force it is necessary to employ, to stop things quickly. The main thing is stop it. The quicker you stop it, the more lives you save.”

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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565.

“I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.”

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Quoted by Richard Rhodes in Wikipedia: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

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Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals (1988), p. 88.

“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more. if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.”

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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.

“We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?”

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From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596

“…Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.”

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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 560-561.

“As far as casualties were concerned I think there were more casualties in the first attack on Tokyo with incendiaries than there were with the first use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The fact that it's done instantaneously, maybe that's more humane than incendiary attacks, if you can call any war act humane. I don't, particularly, so to me there wasn't much difference. A weapon is a weapon and it really doesn't make much difference how you kill a man. If you have to kill him, well, that's the evil to start with and how you do it becomes pretty secondary. I think your choice should be which weapon is the most efficient and most likely to get the whole mess over with as early as possible.”

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The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series, p. 574

“Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal…. Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.”

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On the morality of the firebombing campaign http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html)

“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more.”

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if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.