Quotes

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.” US Constitution

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“We don’t do body counts”

General Tommy Franks,

US Central Command

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"Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity," he said. "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."

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"I am calling upon Muslims in general and Iraqi people in particular, to tell them to avoid supporting the American Crusaders and those who back them. Those who assist them, irrespective of the names, are renegades and infidels"

-Usama Bin Laden

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"I'm still in a war mode, and the war is terrorism." George W. Bush, September, 2003

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'Is our current situation such that 'the

harder we work, the behinder we

get?...It is pretty clear that the coalition

can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one

way or another, but it will be a long,

hard slog'

Rumsfeld

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"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? 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 and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty." -Gandhi

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"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome."

George H.W. Bush: A World Transformed (1998)

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“What surprised me was how much the Bush administration knew right after the attacks, and how little they knew right before”

-Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright on CNN’s Late Edition

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"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people." -Richard Perle

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"I believe that if those calling for war knew their children were more likely to be required to serve—and to be placed in harm's way—there would be more caution and a greater willingness to work with the international community in dealing with Iraq,"

-Rep Charles Rangel (D- NY)

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'I hope and pray I don't have to go back'

- Marine Cpl. Myles Blinka

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"Persistently, on every conceivable occasion, they had to shatter the structure of the Reich. By the imposition of one disarmament note after another, on the one hand, and by the economic extortion thus made possible, on the other hand, Paris hoped slowly to disjoint the Reich structure. The more rapidly national honor withered away in Germany, the sooner could economic pressure and unending poverty lead to destructive political effects. Such a policy of political repression and economic plunder, carried on for ten or twenty years, must gradually ruin even the best state structure and under certain circumstances dissolve it. And thereby the French war aim would finally be achieved.

"By the winter of 1922-23 this must long since have been recognized as the French intent. Only two possibilities remained: We might hope gradually to blunt the French will against the tenacity of the German nation, or at long last do what would have been done in the end anyway, to pull the helm of the Reich ship about on some particularly crass occasion, and ram the enemy.”

-excerpt from the last chapter of Mein Kampf: "The Right of Emergency Defense" (i.e. The justification of a pre-emptive strike)

Also see: A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm and Rebuilding America's Defenses

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"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal..." From an Interview with Ariel Sharon published in the Israeli daily Davar Dec. 17, 1982

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"I rise today to voice my concern about the disastrous turn which the fortunes of this nation have taken. The Bush Administration, in a scant 2 1/2 years, has imperiled our country in the gravest of ways, and set us up for a possible crisis of mammoth proportions."

- Senator Robert Byrd

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“From a marketing point of view,

you don't introduce a new

product in August,”

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card

told The New York Times about why the

Bush administration was waiting on its

PR offensive about the possibility of war

until after Labor Day - 2002

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“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland."

- Adolph Hitler

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"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."

-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

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"Others lie slashed and bloody, but provide enough clues for the families to confirm their worst fears...Among them is Jabar Kadeem Faisal al-Amry, a bearded middle-aged man. He is wrapped in a painted banner and diaphanous strips of cloth from dresses grabbed from a nearby boutique when he was killed by the blast. He died, according to his brother Mohammed, on his way to buy sweets and ice cream for his six children."

Robert Fisk: Najaf 8.30.03

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“[America] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force ... she might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer

the ruler of her own spirit.... [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty.”

-John Quincy Adams

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

April 16, 1953

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"About six blocks up the street, there's a

beautiful memorial for 58,000 of our brothers

and sisters who died in Vietnam... ... Already,

we've lost about 350 of our own brothers and

sisters in this war. One can't help but wonder

how big the memorial for this war is going to

have to be."

- Vietnam War Veteran

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'We can't just use munitions which leave a toxic wasteland behind them and kill indiscriminately.

'It is the equivalent to a war crime.'” Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the

Pentagon's Depleted Uranium project and former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University

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“We intend to liquidate all of Hamas, without any distinction between the political and military branches of this organization,”

- a source close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

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"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster."

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"How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?"

On August 22, 1920, an article written by former Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia) in London's Sunday Times regarding England's occupation of ancient lands in the Middle East (LINK to Senator Byrd's speech)

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said. "You'd have to change almost an entire generation's culture."

-Senator DeLay- House

Majority Leader

"Good things come to those who get them."-YT

War Crimes Tribunals: Bring 'Em On!

History will forgive us?

USC Title 18, Section 2331, (Patriot Act, a new category) - "domestic terrorism" - has been created and means activities that:

"involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping, and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."

Bush KNOWINGLY lied about Iraq's WMD to intimidate and coerce the public and congress to get his oil war in Iraq. Bush is, by definition of his own Patriot Act, a terrorist.

Mr. Bush, the country awaits your impeachment and free trip to Guantanamo.

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''I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq,''