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"If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack,"
LeMay continued, "I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they
take off the ground."

...

"But General LeMay," Sprague said, "that's not national policy."

"I don't care," LeMay replied.  "It's my policy.  That's what I'm
going to do."
		-- Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of
		   Armageddon, p. 134

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