- Reporter: [coming up to them] Boys, why did you walk out of school today?
- Stan: Uhhh... war.
- Reporter: Yes, and what about the war?
- Kyle: Uhh... it's gay?
- Reporter: Yes, and what about it is most gay?
- Stan: [Reading off his sign] Uhh... no blood for oil.
- Kyle: [Reading his sign] War is not my voice.
- Cartman: [reading a sign that says "Bush is a Nazi"] Bush is a Nay-zee.
- Mr. Garrison: Oh, and by the way, children, there's a walkout scheduled today to protest the war in Iraq. So, uh, if you're against the war, run along outside, and if you're for the war, uh, stay here and we'll do math problems.
- Skeeter: Hey, everybody, this is never gonna work. Don't you see? All this dividin' up the town, it's just ridiculous. What we really should be doing, is just beatin' the hell out of each other like we were.
- Randy Marsh: He's right. Boy, do I feel like a fool.
- Benjamin Franklin: I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both?
- Benjamin Franklin: And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time, act like we didn't want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless.