When politicians are writing up war resolutions -- which means, when politicians are resolved to the cause of war -- I'd like to see a realistic version. Something that shows that they know what they're getting people into, rather than a bunch of empty rhetoric about freedom and good vs. evil.

Something like:

"We resolve to take their land and their lives. We resolve to slaughter their children. We resolve to bring tragedy and suffering upon millions of human beings who have little, if anything, to do with this conflict. We resolve to bring them famine and disease. We resolve to destroy their homes and businesses, lives and careers, hope and future. We resolve to reduce the survivors to struggling animals selling their bodies and souls."

Thinking that wouldn't go over so well in the press, though. So mostly we're gonna hear about how we'll be greeted as liberators.

We all know that when we go to war we turn teenagers into prostitutes. But nobody ever talks about that. Makes the whole exercise silly, in addition to tragic.