Quotations of Truth.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

"Unfortunately, we are witnessing the bitter truth
that some powers do not value some nations or human beings
and the only things that matter to them are themselves,
their political parties and their groups.

"In their view, human rights are tantamount to
profits for their companies and their friends.
The rights and dignity of the American people
are also being sacrificed for the selfish
desires of those holding power."

Oswald Chambers:

"People who think they are "special"...
have accepted imperfection."

Hussan Al-Suneid:

"We cannot imagine that a neighbourhood is bombed
with an excuse that 'we are searching for a terrorist."

H. L. Menckin:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land
will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House
will be adorned by a downright moron."

Columnist Robert Novak, Washington Post:

"Some senators were left with the impression
that the White House still does not recognise
the scope of the Iraq dilemma."

A. J. Muste:

"The problem after a war is with the victor.
He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay."

Charles Thompson:

"For Anglo-Saxons, humans are not equals
but rivals in eternal struggle.
The strongest will.... prevail over the weak.
Anglo-Saxons don’t understand what solidarity means.
They just know about compassion.
This is the ideology of such a special people."

Mohammad Kamaali:

The day a war criminal becomes an envoy of peace
is an Orwellian nightmare having come true,
and a wake up call to us all.

UN envoy, Alvaro de Soto:

"The US clearly pushed for a confrontation between Fatah and Hamas,
so much so that, a week before Mecca, the US envoy declared
twice in an envoys meeting in Washington how much
'I like this violence',
referring to the near-civil war that was erupting in Gaza
in which civilians were being regularly killed and injured."

UN "Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" Article 2, section 2.
(In force 1987, ratified by US, 1994):

"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever,
whether a state of war or a threat of war,
internal political instability or any other public emergency,
may be invoked as a justification of torture."

British high court judge, Justice Andrew Collins:

"America's idea of what is torture is not the same as ours
and does not appear to coincide with that of most civilized nations."

Michael Neumann:

"'collateral damage' is a rather abstract way
to describe tearing off a child's face."

Karl Marx:

"To be radical, is to grasp the root of the matter.
But for man, the root is man himself."

Blogger on CommonDreams.org:

"As a young man I gave a lot of thought to the question:
“how did Germany, with an educated public by the standards of the day,
allow itself to slip into a fascist State?
Not only a fascist state but one bent on genocide”.
Unfortunately I have the answer as I watch the United States
beg to go there consumed with hate and fear mixed with apathy."

Paul Craig Roberts:

If Cheney again prevails,
America will supplant the Third Reich
as the most reviled country in recorded history.

Chuck Schumer, Democrat senator:

"The vice president doesn't know what branch of government he is in,
the president doesn't know what the constitution is,
the people don't know what the heck is going on"

Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, of Hizb ut-Tahrir::

"Indonesia has been living under secular ruling
since it gained its independence and we have
never had anything but misery and poverty.
That is why we have been fighting to replace
the secular system with an Islamic one."

Chekhov:

Art can carry us away
from dirt,
worthless concerns
and everyday offences.

Only the beautiful
gives peace and satisfaction.

Bolivia’s President, Evo Morales:

"Transnational corporations always provoke conflicts
to accumulate capital,
and the accumulation of capital in a few hands
is no solution for humanity.
And so I have arrived at the conclusion
that capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity."

James Madison:

"No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

Tony Blair:

“This war on all fronts should last during several generations if necessary”.

Paul Craig Roberts:


"....the reason the war against Iraq cannot end,
and the reason Iran and Syria must be attacked,
is that the US must destroy all Muslim
opposition to Israel's theft of Palestine."






Harry Belafonte:

I think they know exactly what they are doing,
and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

Former US President Jimmy Carter:

"The UK's almost undeviating support for
the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq
has been a major tragedy for the world".

David Ben-Gurion:

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation,
land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services
to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

Harry Belafonte:

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Pakistani P.M., Shaukat Aziz:

"The Palestinian people deserve a homeland
and the right to live in peace."

Mark Twain

"Never try to teach
a pig to sing:
It wastes your time,
and annoys the pig."

The Living Christ Spirit:

"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me
is not worthy of me;
anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me."

June Jordan, poet (1936 - 2002):

"Just this minute and then the next
determines whether you or I
do what we can
to stop the injustice and the tyrannies
surrounding us,
and inside our hearts."

Anthony Blair:

“This country is a blessed nation.
The British are special.
The world knows it.
In our innermost thoughts,
we know it.
This is the greatest nation on earth”.

MK Rabbi Levi:

"One Jewish fingernail is worth more than one million Arabs".

Ayman al-Zawahri:

"We ask Allah ...
...that we give the blood spillers
in Washington and Europe
an unforgettable lesson...
to motivate them to review
their entire doctrinal and moral system."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time
they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall
- think of it, ALWAYS."

Japanese Proverb:

Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.

Robert Fisk, in The Independent (quoting a CIA operative):

"One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans
as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time
learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training.
They said to him: "Come back in a week."
When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone
and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them.
He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal.
So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal.
Then his car blew up."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction
is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"Dick" Cheney (on "Meet the Press" in 2003):

"Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president,
I've severed all my ties with the company,
gotten rid of all my financial interest.
I have no financial interest in Halliburton, of any kind
and haven't had, now, for over three years."





Cheney's financial disclosure forms (2005):

"(He) received a deferred salary from Halliburton of
$205,298 in 2001,
$262,392 in 2002,
$278,437 in 2003,
and $294,852 in 2004."





In 2005, an analysis released by Senator Frank Lautenberg:

"Cheney continued to hold over 300,000 Halliburton stock options
Their value had risen 3,281% over the previous year,
from $241,498 to more than $8 million."






Senator Lautenberg;

"It is unseemly (sic) for the Vice President
to continue to benefit from this company
at the same time his Administration
funnels billions of dollars to it."

President Chavez (Venezuela):

"I want to formalise our exit from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
We are going to withdraw before they go and rob us."

Valery Giscard d'Estaing:

"Public opinion will be led to adopt,
without knowing it, the proposals that
we dare not present to them directly."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Israeli Amira Hass describes when her mother, Hannah,
was marched from a cattle train to Bergen-Belsen.

"They were sick and some were dying.
Then my mother saw these German women
looking at the prisoners.
This image became very formative in my upbringing,
this despicable 'looking from the side'."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"Whatever you do will be insignificant,
but it is very important that you do it."

Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet:

"This Labour government.......
is party to a war crime of monstrous proportions.
Yet our political consensus prevents any
judicial or civil society response.
Britain is paralysed by its own indifference."

Zimbabwean Blogger:

"The UK should not be allowed to interact with peaceful nations,
it is too violent and Terror hardened."

Robert Jackson, chief U S counsel at Nuremberg:

"Crimes are crimes, whether we do them
or whether Germany does them, and we
are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct
which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

John Pilger:

"The scale of death caused by the British and U.S. governments
may well have surpassed that of the Rwanda genocide,
making it the biggest single act of mass murder
of the late 20th century and the 21st century."






Literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Our policy is not to review John Pilger".

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher (c. 372-289 BCE):

"A person without any sense of shame
is no longer a human being."

Leaders of Ecuador's popular organizations, in
"An Open Letter to the People":

"Never before has it been so clear
that it is the people who make history.
Today we are at the beginning of an era
of popular power, marked by the initial work
of the Constituent Assembly.
It flows out of the resilience of the Ecuadorian people.
It is potent and tumultuous."

Bolivian taxi driver Rosso Cano, 28,
on seeing the ocean for the first time
(two years ago during a trip to Peru):

“Man, it’s beautiful, So blue.
It looks like a ...like a big carpet,
like a big blue carpet you could walk right on top of.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki:

"The world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue:
continued negotiations or confrontation."

Aristotle:

"Courageous people are not reckless people.
Courage is an act of willpower."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr (1967):

We must be prepared to match words with actions
by seeking out every creative method of protest possible.

Robert Louis Stevenson:

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ...
but by the seeds you plant!"

Leonard Nimoy:

"The miracle is this - the more we share,
the more we have."

Human Rights Watch (2007):

"The US has a flagrant record of violating the
Geneva Convention in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Detainees are routinely subject to severe beating,
painful stress positions, severe sleep deprivation,
and exposure to extreme cold and heat.
Soldiers were told that many abusive techniques
were authorized by the military chain of command
and Geneva Conventions did not apply.
Detainees at Camp Nama, a U.S. detention center at Baghdad airport
- were regularly stripped naked and subject to beatings.
Some detainees were used for target practice."





Archives of Internal Medicine (US):

"A third of all US soldiers returning from the wars
in Afghanistan or Iraq have received treatments
from the Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005
for mental illnesses or other psychosocial disorders."





Sorcha Faal, essayist, in Pravda:

"Under an executive order signed by President Bush
shortly after the 2001 attacks, anyone with 1 day
of active-duty military service is eligible for citizenship.
When these Foreign Mercenaries are turned loose in the U S,
to uphold laws they know nothing about,
to support a Nation they in fact despise,
only then will the full, and horrific,
implications of the recruitment, and use,
of Foreign Mercenaries be fully felt."

Rodrigue Tremblay:

"When the government and the media are both corrupted,
all the other forms of corruption follow."

Mark Twain:

"The best way to cheer yourself
is to cheer somebody else up."

Cindy Sheehan, in a letter to Bush:

"I will make it my life's work to impeach you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year.

Mohammed Emami-Kashani, a member of Iran's highest arbitration body
the Expediency Council, broadcast live on state radio:

"We are not lying. Our atomic work is for
serving the nation, not for building arms."

George Bush:

"Iran's government has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon".

Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes:

It is not the answer that enlightens,
but the question.

In March this year, a vegetable seller
in Iraq was hailed as a hero.
He died when a bomb-laden package exploded
as he carried it away from a crowded area in Sadr City.
Fellow peddler Haitham Mohammed said:

"May God bless his soul. He gave his life to save other lives."

Albert Einstein:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science."

Massie Ritsch, The Centre for Responsive Government,
(a lobbying watchdog group):

"The pro-Israel lobby is the most powerful among foreign interests
that want contact with the federal government.
Members of congress have travelled to Israel
more often in the past two years,
than they’ve been to Chicago, in our own country.
It is the most travelled foreign destination for members of congress."

Albert Einstein:

"If A equals success, then the formula is:
A = X + Y + Z
X is work. Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut."

Speaking at Friday prayers in Tehran,
Ayatollah Ahmad Janati:

"These so-called clerics who say
that Shiites are killing Sunnis in Iraq,
would they dare still now repeat these charges?
We ourselves do not say that it is Sunnis
who are committing these crimes.
We are saying that terrorists are doing it
under the protection of the United States and Great Britain
who act with the cunning of a fox."

Winston Churchill:

"Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

President Chavez, Venezuela:

"We have resisted for a long time.
But no one wins a battle always staying on the defensive."

Alexander Graham Bell:

"Before anything else,
preparation is the key to success."

British military historian Corelli Barnett:

"An attack on Iran would effectively launch world war three".

Frederick Buechner:

“When you forgive somebody who has wronged you,
you’re spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride.
For both parties, forgiveness means the freedom again
to be at peace inside their own skins
and to be glad in each others’ presence."

W. Edwards Deming:

"It is not enough to do your best;
you must know what to do,
and THEN do your best."

"Seeds for Change" representative Matthew Herbert:

"We need to avoid this myth that there are ordinary people
and then there are strange mutants who take direct action.
In fact, there are ordinary people who don't take direct action
and there are ordinary people who do take direct action,
and it's just one short step between one and the other."

Plutarch (c. 46 A.D.-127 A.D.):

"The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining elections.
Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts.
And then to the army, and finally the Republic
was subjected to the rule of emperors."

George Bush (President of the U.S.):

"Families is where our nation finds hope,
where wings take dream."

Found in a Chinese "fortune cookie":

It's not who votes that counts...
it's who counts the votes!






George Galloway, M.P:

"In Tower Hamlets last May, we witnessed the most
corrupt election held in Britain since 1872.
Hundreds of votes were purloined by crooks
applying for postal votes and getting them
redirected to an address sometimes just doors
away from the registered address of the voter.
Whole blocks of flats woke up to discover that
every one of their residents had applied for a
postal vote to be redirected to another address
without their knowledge."

Walter Winchell

"Nothing recedes like success."

Mohammed Hashim, an Afghan farmer,
whose sister and cousin died in recent fighting:

"I am not angry with anyone," he said,
"I just want the war to stop."

Andrew Carnegie:

"People rarely succeed unless
they have fun in what they are doing."

Marquis de Sade:

"What is more immoral than war?"

George R. Kirkpatrick:

Nature gave men two ends -
one to sit on and one to think with.
Ever since then man's success or failure
has been dependent on the one he used most.

Albert Pike, Scottish Rite Freemason (1809-1891):

“What we have done for ourselves alone
dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.”

Albert Einstein:

"Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value."

Noam Chomsky:

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied,
then every post-World War II American president
would have to be hanged like the worst of
the Nazi war criminals found guilty."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost,
by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend,
by prayer or by wine."

Winston Churchill:

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas…
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes
(to) spread a lively terror…”
(The tribes were the Kurds of Iraq and the Afghans.)

David Lloyd George
(at the 1932 disarmament convention):

"We insisted on the right to bomb niggers."

Edward Abbey (1927-1989):

"The industrial way of life
leads to the industrial way of death.
From Shiloh to Dachau,
from Antietam to Stalingrad,
from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan,
the great specialty of industry and technology
has been the mass production of human corpses."





Lt. Gen. James Mattis, US commander in Iraq and Afghanistan. (February 1, 2005):

"It's quite fun to fight 'em, you know.
It's a hell of a hoot.
It's fun to shoot some people.
I'll be right up front with you...
I like brawling."

Tim Sebastian, journalist:

"All that stands between us
and whatever terrible abyss is out there
is our ability to talk to each other.
If we can't somehow urgently improve
on those communication skills,
generations are going to go on dying
locked into the same cycle of violence
that we have so conspicuously failed to break."

George Bush:

"the Iraqi people owe the American people
a huge debt of gratitude."

Judge Robert Jackson at the Nurnberg Trials:

“The unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation
is not only a war crime, it is the supreme war crime
differing from all other war crimes only in that
it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.

Israeli former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
on Oct. 3rd, 2001:

“...I want to tell you something very clear:
Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel.
We, the Jewish people, control America,
and the Americans know it.”

Waleed Mohammed, the attorney representing the Haditha victims:

"They are waiting for an outcome
although they are convinced that
the sentence will be like one for
someone who killed a dog in the United States
.... Iraqis have become like dogs in the eyes of Americans."

Margaret Beckett:

"He (Saddam) has now been held to account."

Jesus Christ

"Inasmuch as you have done it to these,
the least of my brothers,
you have done it to me"

Gandhi:

"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq:

"First it was weapons of mass destruction.
Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam.
We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial.
So now, what will be the next story they tell us
to keep us over here?"

Pogo (U.S. Cartoonist):

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri,
Saddam's "successor":

"Saddam Hussein's assassination
at the criminal hands of the US administration
and its English, Zionist and Persian Safavid allies
will only strengthen the determination of
the Baath, its people and the Arab nation
to wage jihad and resistance until
the enemy is destroyed and Iraq liberated."

Pope John Paul II:

"An invasion of Iraq would be an adventure
from which there is no return."

The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones:

“We face two further possibilities:
either a conflict of attrition between the faiths
or a settlement of peaceful coexistence.
We must hope that Christians will find
the same just treatment in the Middle East
as Muslims have a right to expect in this country.”

Clausewitz, in his classic work, On War:

"We only wish to represent things as they are,
and to expose the error of believing
that a mere bravo without intellect
can make himself distinguished in war."

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams:

"... pray for the little town of Bethlehem,
and spare a thought for those who have been put at risk
by our short-sightedness and ignorance."

Bierce:

"War is God's way
of teaching Americans geography."

Prince Hassan of Jordan (March 26, 2004):

"I'm afraid the making of World War III is actually taking place in front of our eyes."

Abba Eban:

"Men and nations behave wisely
once they've exhausted all other alternatives."

Yasser Arafat:

"Bethlehem is the birthplace of
our Lord the Messiah, the Palestinian."

Radhouane Nouicer (UNHCR's deputy director for the region):

"[Palestinians in Iraq] have very limited freedom of movement
and no possibility to leave the country -
unlike Iraqis - to find a safe haven.
We ... ask the world to stop turning their back
and provide a humane solution and safe haven
to these people who have no way out."

Carne Ross, a diplomat at Britain's UN mission in New York:

"....the UK sold ...resolution 1441 explicitly on the grounds
that it did not represent authorisation for war".

Al-Hashemi, Vice-President of Iraq:

"Imagine one day waking up and finding out
that your nation's leaders had completely dismantled all police and military.
As a result, there is not one policeman,
or state, or federal law enforcement agent,
or even one national guard or any soldier
to protect you from criminal elements, or terrorists.
It will be total chaos.
Then imagine that instead of calling back the army and security forces,
the authorities in this imaginary scenario
decided to form a new army and police from racist militias,
some mercenaries and organised crime gangs.
With the new government-issued budget and government-issued vehicles,
these armed groups begin arresting, torturing, murdering innocent people
either because of their faith, or creed, or purely for profit.
This is exactly what has happened in Iraq."

Batarseh, the mayor of Bethlehem:

"We really need help
from all our Christian brothers everywhere in the world.
This is the city where Jesus Christ was born.
Now is the time to help us."

Akbar Ahmed and Allen Hertzk
(A Christian and a Muslim):

"Together Christians and Muslims make up half the world's population,
and the planet cannot sustain a war between them.
JESUS is a bridge for BOTH:
Jesus holds a unique place in the Koran,
the holy book of Islam:
He is miraculously born of the Virgin Mary.
As no other figure in Islamic history he can perform miracles,
such as breathing life into a figure of clay,
giving sight to the blind, curing the leper
and bringing the dead to life (Chapter 3, Verse 49).
He is mentioned more often in the Koran than even the Prophet Muhammad
and there is an entire chapter devoted to Mary,
the venerated mother of Jesus.
It is also well ...to recall that
the Prophet Muhammad said about himself
that there is no one closer to Jesus in love and reverence."

Blogger:

"Any American who isn't literally BURNING THEIR PHONE LINES UP
to their elected official screaming for them to
bring our troops home now and impeach the war criminals
is part of the problem, not the solution.
I call my Senator EVERY OTHER DAY WITHOUT FAIL.
My telephone is smoking. Is yours?
If not, then pick up the phone and
MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN.
LOUDLY. PASSIONATELY. FORCEFULLY. OFTEN.
To the British, my only suggestion is for you to
contact your elected officials if you want British troops out of Iraq,
and DON'T GIVE UP. NEVER GIVE UP.
Change only happens when the person impeding change is UNCOMFORTABLE.
Therefore, it is our DUTY to make our governmental officials AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE
regarding the illegal occupation of our troops in Iraq."

The reelected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez:

"Jesus Christ talked to the Devil...
we can do the same.
We need moral strength to talk to the devil
....and we have it.
Mr. Bush has to resign,
as have many officials of his government.
He has managed a disaster in his country,
where the only things going up
are poverty and military expenditure.
Let’s hope the United States
will have a good government some day."

Blogger:

"I can see the argument in favour of retaining a
nuclear capability to deter madcap "rogue states".
But why do we then need such a complex and expensive delivery system?
Discussion seems to assume that it's Trident or nothing."

The Oxford Research Group:

"Nuclear weapon modernisation is likely to serve
as a substantial encouragement to nuclear proliferation
as countries with perceptions of vulnerability
deem it necessary to develop their own deterrent capabilities."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency:

The mere possession of nuclear weapons today
should be viewed with the same condemnation and horror
as we have regarded slavery and genocide
in our modern civilized world.





Kate Hudson, chair of CND, said Iran and North Korea
would see Britain's Trident decision as:

"a vindication of their own aspirations."





British Labour ( ! ) Govt spokesperson:

"What evidence is there that those countries
are watching to see what we are doing?"

Haji Zalwar Khan (Afghan tribal Elder):

"The solution is for the Americans to leave.
Since they arrived, everything has become so much worse.
We hear the firing but we have
no idea where they are staying.
We can do nothing about it.
Lumber is the only business we have.
And now they want to take that away."






Capt McKnight (U.S. Army):

"They're just a bunch of jerks who are bucking hard against their (sic) government."

Mary Baker Eddy,
the founder of The Christian Science Monitor:

"God is universal; confined to no spot,
defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
Not more to one than to all,
is God demonstrable
as divine Life, Truth, and Love;
and His people are they that reflect Him
- that reflect Love"

A contractor in Iraq. He works as a gunner protecting convoys between Baghdad and Kuwait:

"We bring in everything - food, medical supplies and ammunition.
We had 160 in our group on my last tour.
We lost 40 guys."
Asked why he kept coming back:
"Simple. The money.
Where else can I make that?
I need to do this for another three years.
Then I can retire."

Keri Christensen, a veteran in Iraq.
One of her wartime duties had been working
next to the mortuary in Kuwait:

"You'd see their possessions in a packet, their date of birth.
They were kids — 19, 20, 21 — that was hard.
They send you home and expect you to live your life normally. You can't.
Well, maybe some people can. I wasn't able to.
I just don't like to go places.
I'd rather stay in my own house,
which I know is safe."

Christopher Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University,
says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years;
a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush:

"Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer Bush."

Istanbul Grand Mufti Mustafa Cagrici,
who prayed with Pope Benedict,
said he had faced Mecca and stood
like Muslims do when they pray aright:

"These were very nice gestures."

Herman Goering:

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and then denounce the peacemakers
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country"

William Blake:

"Kiss the joy as it flies"

Rudyard Kipling:

Once more we hear the word

That sickened earth of old:

"No law except the sword

Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, the EX-prime minister agreed with
broadcaster Sir David Frost when he suggested that intervention had
"so far been pretty much of a disaster".
Mr Blair said: "It has, but you see, what I say to people is,
'why is it difficult in Iraq?'
It's not difficult because of some accident in planning,
it's difficult because there's a deliberate strategy ...
.. to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace
is displaced by the will of the minority for war."

Madeleine Albright, former American ambassador
to the UN and former Sec. of State:

“What’s the point of having this superb military…
if we can’t use it?”





Marilyn Waring (Counting for Nothing):

"It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly
in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters
to make sure that there is always a war going on
somewhere."






William Ralph Inge:

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets,
but he cannot sit on it."

Donald Rumsfeld, (about the violence and disorder in Iraq after the invasion.):

"Stuff happens."

Rosemary Hollis of Chatham House in London:

"It is totally logical to think that you cannot solve Iraq without involving its neighbours.
But my fear is that this will fall down in the execution.
The US and UK have no idea that the shoe is on the other foot.
It is they who are weak. Yet they still expect Iran to make all the concessions."

Castro said of Ortega's win (In Nicaragua):

This... "fills our people with joy, at the same time filling the terrorist
and genocidal government of the United States with opprobrium."

International development charity War On Want:

"How can Tony Blair hope
to restore peace and security in Iraq
while allowing mercenary armies to operate completely outside the law?
The government has failed to enact laws to punish their
human rights abuses, including firing on Iraqi civilians.
There are now some 48,000 PMSC staff in Iraq,
many of whom work for British companies.
That is six times the number of British troops.
The COST of contracts being handed out in Iraq went from
£320M in 2003 to more than £1.8 billion the following year."

The Foreign Office published a
discussion paper on regulating PMSCs four years ago
but the government has not acted on it.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
(On Republican electoral defeats):

"Of course, the citizens of the United States are humans with a conscience.
It's a reprisal vote against the war in Iraq, against corruption.
All this fills us with optimism."

Iraq's prime minister Nuri al-Maliki:

"If, as we are asking, the rebuilding of our forces was in our own hands,
then it would take not 12-18 months but six might be enough.
If anyone is responsible for the poor security situation in Iraq
it is the (U.S.-led) Coalition.
I cannot move a single company without Coalition approval
... I have to be careful fighting some militias and terrorists
... because they are better armed than the army and police.
The police are having to share rifles."

Donald Rumsfeld (about democracy in Iraq):

"that's up to them".

Jocky, Scotland:

"The news reports soldiers, but never the private security industry;
which is twice (sic) the size of the British Army in Iraq.
Private convoys moving equipment and western engineers
are a nightmare and claiming PSI lives every week;
all ex-pats.
Now that’s news."

The World Press Freedom Index 2006,
published by the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF),
showed that the US had dropped 12 places to 53rd place,
below countries such as Ghana, Mali and Bolivia:

"the steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming".

Christine Hansen, (executive director of the
Miles Foundation, a service and advocacy agency
for victims of sexual and domestic violence
related to the U.S. military):

"The numbers of sexual assaults being reported (in Iraq)
indicates that these individuals are not rogues.
These are men who utilized the training and tactics of the armed forces
when they stalked this young woman and killed the family,
and they were part of a system
where there's no intervention or punishment for sexual assault."

George Bush:

"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them,
and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,
and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."

Raed Jarrar:

"I am personally familiar with the kind of intimidation
that can be brought by both the U.S. military and civilian personnel,
and I would be shocked if multiple millions of
dollars in bribes are not changing hands."






The IMF in its latest report:

"Corruption related to the production and distribution
of refined fuel products is rampant."





Erik Leaver, a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington:

"The disposition of Iraq's oil wealth
is definitely causing problems on the ground,
but nobody in Washington wants to talk about it.
They don't want to sound like freaks talking about blood for oil."






Iraqis in a recent poll
(asked what THEY believed was the main reason for the invasion)
76 percent said:

"To control Iraqi oil"

Houzan Mahmoud (Organization For Women's Freedom In Iraq):

"The US-led occupation has done nothing for Iraqi citizens,
because US troops did not protect them.
They simply destroyed the infrastructures of the country,
raped women in prisons and stayed in barracks,
or travelled around in huge military convoys,
terrified of the attacks of the Resistance
which take place all day, every day.
If one year ago
between 50 and 100 people died every day,
the figure today is in the hundreds.
We were better off under Saddam."