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| "war is about killing and maiming people. It is dishonest to pretend it is not" |
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| Maher Abdallah Ahmad, al-Jazeera correspondent |
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| "They ask us to come up with a definition of terrorism that could be used throughout the government. We produced about 6, in each and every case, they were rejected, because careful reading would indicate that our own country had been involved in some of these activities." |
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| Edward Peck, U.S. diplomat and deputy director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism |
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| "Allied air chiefs have made the long-awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombings of German population centers as a ruthless expedient of hastening Hitler's doom." |
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| Associated Press, following Dresden Fire bombing, Feb 1945 |
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| "You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting" |
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| "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal" |
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| "For us, there are two sorts of people in the world. There are those who are Christians and support free enterprises, and there are the others. |
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| "I owe my throne to God, my people, my army to you" |
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| Mohammad Reza Shah, speaking to Kermit Roosevelt |
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| "The most important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right. He told us again and again in 2002 and early 2003 as president bush and prime minister Tony Blair prepared us for war in Iraq that there were no weapons there. The Iraqi WMDs, the main sales tool for war, did not exist" |
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| "If your are really thinking about war and you want us Brits to be a player, we cannot unless you go to the UN." |
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| British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw |
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| "Simply stated, there is no doubt that he (Saddam Hussein) now has weapons of mass destruction (and) there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us." |
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| V.P. Dick Cheney, august 26, 2002 |
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| "You can't roll out a new product in August" |
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| Andrew Card, Bush white house chief of staff, before administration began a campaign promoting war with Iraq in Sept 2002 |
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| "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was one reason everyone could agree upon." |
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| Former Bush Defense Department official Paul Wolfowitz |
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| "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." |
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| Donald Rumsfeld, of Iraqs so called WMDS |
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| "It occurred to me that the Iraqis would be in greater difficulty...if there truly were no weapons of mass destruction, of which they could yield possession." |
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| Hans Blix, former UN chief weapons instrustor |
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| "There was no point in seeking to covert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be 'the man in the street.' Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology. |
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| "The first casualty, when war comes, is truth" |
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| Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917 |
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| "I think the president would mislead the American People." |
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| These guys are a disgrace. Look, everybody knows its 101, politics 101, that you don't go to an adversary country, an enemy country, and badmouth the U.S., its policies and the president of the United States." |
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| Mara Liasson, NPR correspondent talking about congressman Jim McDermott |
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| "Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know they'll leave a fallen comrade." |
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| Gen. Vincent Brooks, about raid to save Lynch |
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| "To criticize one's country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it's doing. It is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing." |
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| Sen. J. William Fullbright |
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| "I play football. It just seems so unimportant to everything that has taken place." |
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| "The administration used Pat. They tried to attach themselves to his virtue and then they wiped their feet with him." |
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| Mary Tillman, mother of Pat |
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| "the face that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill hims is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting." |
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| Mary Tillman, mother of Pat. |
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| "After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this. They purposely interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a hand basket if the truth about his death got out. They blew up their poster boy." |
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| Patrick Tillman Sr. Father of Pat. |
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| "Political language-and with variations this is true of all political parties from Conservatives to Anarchists-is designed to make lies sounds truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." |
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| "hurtling along the road toward full fledged fascism" |
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| "There never was a good war or a bad peace" |
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| "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocked fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." |
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| "The first thing you need to understand in covering politics is that all governments lie." |
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