Quotations
"Nobody made a greater mistake than s/he who did nothing because
s/he could only do a little."
-Edmund Burke. From :
flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm/ws/2002/73/webreview.html
"The Taoiseach has indicated that he supported President Bush's plans
for the next phase of the war on terror even if it means going after
Iraq. Mr Ahern said that President Bush would not be launching an
operation against Iraq any time soon. The Taoiseach was speaking at
the White House, where the two men met today.
The Taoiseach told the President during their meeting that Ireland
would support the efforts of the international community in the war
against terrorism in every way open to it. Mr Bush told the Taoiseach
that Ireland was a valuable member of the coalition."
-From
www.rte.ie/news/2002/0313/taoiseach.html : The answer to whether
Ireland was or wasn't a member of the "Coalition of the
Killing" ( Never declared by Waffler Ahern) .
Compare the above with Berties "I was always
dead against the war" line below...
"Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human
and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in
effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the
Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well.
Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of
international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone
the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a
bitterly hostile land."
-- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"
by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998
From iraqbodycount.com/forum/
“We don’t do body counts”
-General Tommy Franks, US Central Command. From www.iraqbodycount.org
"You have to understand the Arab mind, The only thing they understand
is force — force, pride and saving face"
-Capt. Todd Brown, a company commander withh the Fourth Infantry
Division. From
www.nytimes.com/...
"Behind McDonalds is McDonald Douglas"
-Thomas Friedman, right wing journalist. Sounds over
dramatic until you read about "Antiwar nations barred from bids" on
www.latimes.com/... Is the US turning communist ? What
happened free trade, open markets, competition, etc. etc. ?
“The broad mass of the nation ... will more easily fall victim to a big
lie than to a small one.”
- The Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, in his 119225 book Mein Kampf.
www.robert-fisk.com/...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
eventually come to believe it.”
- Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbeelss.
www.robert-fisk.com/...
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram
Warren Johnson
"The first casualty of war is innocence" Tag line for the Oliver
Stone movie "Platoon"
"The first casualty
of war is grammar." Terry Jones,
Monty Python member, writer and performer.
“Voice or no voice, 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 denounce the peacemakers for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country.”
-Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, befforre committing suicide at the
Nuremberg Trials. www.robert-fisk.com/...
"The
reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
Anti-(GW2) war poets Harold Pinter & Andrew Motion - search in
Google.
"This happens to be a piece of intelligence that either we don't have
or we don't want to talk about." Donald Rumsfeld on the alleged
connection between Saddam & Osama. J.S. p261.
"But can a cause be justified if it is imposed on classrooms and
maternity hospitals and mental homes and ordinary, small, poverty
stricken houses with cluster bombs and high explosives and the
cleverest methods of killing people that the munitions
manufacturers of the United States and Britain can cause ? "
- John Simpson. "The wars against Saddam" PP280.
"Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not".
-Hilaire Beloc. J.S. p297
"We like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time
when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious
president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for
fictitious reasons."
- Michael Moore, Oscars ceremony 2003. &nbssp;Nothing as eventful took
place at the oscars 2004.
"They are drunk with power"
- Nelson Mandela re US. J.S p 3391.
"Yes, Iraq is a threat to the US, but only no. 7 on the list and no
action is needed against anyone beyond 5"
- Anthony Zinni, former marine corps general & special
representative in Middle East. J.S p386
"...They will beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into
pruning hooks. Nation will not lift sword against nation, there will be
no more training for war".
-Is. 2,4.
"The rich man must be ruthless"
-Ezek 27-1 Bush Jnr, offten uses the bible & God
for his cause but must have missed these last 2 bits.
"I believe God wants me to be President" - George Bush Jnr. "Hey
dude wheres my country". Micheal Moore pg 129
"I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that
supercedes all human plans" George Bush Jnr. ,, p129.
"I feel the comfort and the power of knowing that literally millions of
Americans I'm never going to meet... say my name to the Almighty
everyday and ask him to help me. My Friend, Jiang Zemin in China
has about a billion and half folks, and I don't think he can say that.
And my Friend Vladimir Putin, like him, but he can't say that" George
Bush Jnr ,, p129
Sunday Independent, Jan 4, 2004. pg 18 ************
"We don't agree with denouncing Iraq as the centre of world evil in an
attempt to compensate for the failure to find bin Laden".
- Igor Ivanov, the Russian foreign ministerr. Jan 2004.
"Asking the Taoiseach a question is like trying to play handball
against a haystack. You hear a dull thud and the ball never comes back".
- Joe Higgins, of the Socialist Party, inn the Dail, questioning the
Government's role in the lead-up to the war on Iraq. Feb 2004
"Looking for weapons in Iraq is like looking for a contact lens in a
football stadium"
- Minister of state Willie O'Dea. Feb 2004..
"Iraq is steeped in history: it is the site of the Garden of Eden, the
great floods, and it is the birthplace of Abraham; tread lightly
there" - Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins in his speech to troops before
invading Iraq from Kuwait. Mar 2004.
"Aer Rianta is the Iraq of Irish tourism; it is an inefficient
dictatorship"
- Ryanairs Michael O'Leary to the Oireachtaais transport committee. Mar
2004.
"Shut up you monkey. A curse be upon your moustach".
- Iraq's Izzat Ibrahim shouts at Kuwait's SSheikh Muhammad during and
Islamic conference in Qatar. Mar 2004.
"We are not watching the breaking of toothpick: lethal weapons are
being destroyed"
- Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix.
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Mar 2004
"Contrast the United Kingdom state - a vibrant multi-ethnic,
multinational liberal democracy, the fourth largest economy in the
world, the most reliable ally of the United States in the fight
against international terrorism - with the pathetic, sectarian,
mono-etthnic, mono-cultural state to our south"
- Northern Irelands first minister David Trrimble, leader of UUP, 2nd
largest party in the north. Apr 2004
"The weight of the bombs we have brought into the area is the same as
four Eiffel Towers"
- A senior US central command official desccribes what was brought into
Iraq. France was not "the most reliable ally of the US in the fight
against international terrorism" Apr 2004
"The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy" - Corporal
Ryan Dupre of the US marines Apr 2004
"Baghdad is safe: the infidels are committing suicide by the
hundreds... God is grilling their stomachs in hell"
- Iraqi information minister, Muhammad Saaeed al-Sahaf. Apr 2004
"Somebody told me the other day that the reason his lips were so thick
was that when his mother was bringing him up he was a very disobedient
boy. So she used to put glue on his lips and stick him to the floor. If
he wants to use his lips to better effect he should do it somewhere
else and do it with people of similar physical looks."
- Ian Paisley, leader of the DUP, the largeest party in the north,
insulting Minister for Foreign Affairs Brian Cowen. Apr 2004
" Methane from the pond life of journalism" - Michael McDowell respons
to criticism in The Star June 2004.
" A load of sh*te" - FG Justice spokesman John Deasy responds to
Michael McDowells comments that FG policy could be written on the back
of a beer mat. June 2004. In April 2004 Enda Kenny, FG leader, sacked
John Deasy as Justice spokesman for smoking in the Dail bar...
"Let me say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat
that, at least, is responsible for human carnage and suffering. That is
something I am confident history will forgive".
- British PM Tony Blair to US congress. Jully 2004. The backup plan of
"humanitarian war" for when no WMD are found was in place back then.
"I see George Bush as a synthetic person. He's a C person at Yale, an
ex-alcoholic who believes in Jesus - what could be more dangerous?"
- Film Director Oliver Stone, Aug 2004
"To do that job you need to be mentally disturbed. These judges are mad
twice over. First, because they are politically that way, and second
because thy are mad anyway."
- Italian PM Silvio Berluscone, to British magazine "The Spectator"
about leading magistrates investigating allegations of corruption
against him. Sept 2004.
" They want $87 bn for two countries: Iraq and Afghanistan; how about
$1bm extra for an entire continent?"
- Bono in Washington, campaigning for donattions toward the Aids
epidemic in Africa. Sept 2004
" It was not for me to investigate the facts. I am not in the business
of breaking due process and natural justice."
- Bertie in the Dail, defending his knowleddge of Michael Collin's tax
difficulties.
" I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little
man with no formal education up to power. I admire him for being such a
good public speaker and for what he did with it"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, current governor oof California, in an
unpublished book obtianed by the New York Times Oct 2004.
"The worst type of politican: a weak man blessed with intelligence"
- UK Unionist leader Robert McCarney on UUPP leader David Trimble.
" I think people are too negative towards politicans, Government,
entrepreneurs. We are fast turning into a communist state."
- Businessman Denis O'Brien vowing not to rreturn to "negative" Ireland
in the near future. Oct 2003.
End of quotes from Sunday Independent, Jan 4, 2004. pg 18 ************
Start of quotes from Irish
Independent Dec 27, 2003, "Review 2003" section *******
"With which country ?"
- George Bush II answers a reporter asking if he is still going to war.
Jan 2003
"I'm not surprised by anti-Americanism, but it is a foolish indulgence"
- Tony Blair. Jan 2003
"I must say that, if we were to publis a report now, we would have
zilch to put in it"
- An unnamed weapons inspector admist no baanned weapons have been found
in Iraq so far. Jan 2003.
"We go forward with confidence because the call of history has come to
the right nation"
- Bush II on the impending Iraq war in his State of the Union Address
Feb 2003.
"Its never been the case that neutrality involves isolation of that we
are indifferent to the affairs of the world. It involves military
neutrality. We've never been politically neutral"
- Foreign affairs minister Brian Cowen. Febb 2003.
"If we had a relationship with al-Qa'ida we wouldn't be ashamed to
admit it"
- Saddam Hussein Feb 2003.
"Is Disneyland a member of the UN?"
- Ali G to UN secretary General Boutros Bouutros-Ghali. March 2003
"France is like an old 1940's actress, dining out on its reputation but
without the face any more"
-Arizona senator John McCain on the French position dring the war on
Iraq.
"Victory will be ours soon. Iraqis will strike the necks as God has
commanded you."
-Saddam Husseing to his troops as US & Coalition soldiers invade.
March 2003.
"Here they are. These are the bodies of my mother and my two sisters. I
recongise my mother from her long plait and her jewellry."
- Bushra Jabber kneeling next to the gravess of family members uncovered
along with the mass graves of over 4,000 people in Mahawil, Iraq. May
2003.
"If this is true, then this is a major coup for the British. It would
mean they have been steering Republican strategy for years"
- Anthony McIntyre, an ex-IRA member on thee Stakeknife revelations. May
2003.
"Americans are presented as lumpen-proletariat firearm fanatics, with
addictions to violent films and unhealthy food"
- Lord Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger International, addressing
the World Association of Newspapers coference in Dublin on how the
European media is portraying Americans.June 2003
"I am appaled at the conditions in which you are having to live and I
believe that the dignity of your office demands that this situation
change without delay"
- Brian Cowen, during a press conference wiith Yasser Arafat in Ramallah
. June 2003
"We cannot let past differences intefere with present duties"
- Bush II calling on the UN to help rebuildd Iraq. Sept 2003.
"Having a role model of the Taoiseach, who is a bit of a lad and fond
of the birds and the beer, doesn't help"
- ASTI president Pat Cahill blames poor rolle models for the low
performance of boys in the Junior Cert compared to girls.
" I wish to unreservedly apologise to the person whom I injred and her
family for this serious lapse of personal responsiblity on my part"
FF TD GV Wright who knocked down a pedestrian (and broke her leg?)
while driving over the alcohol limit. Sept 2003.
"As always, as party leader, I'm left to sort it out"
- Bertie commenting on the GV Wright offencce and Limerick West TC
Michael Collin's Tax problems. Oct 2003.
"I think you really have to get it together by the time you're 50 of
you're f**ked"
- Bob Geldof Oct 2003.
"It was just that a few people believed that I was supporting the war. I was always dead against the war. I did all I could
throughout to hold and uphold the UN position. That's why I said that
100,000 people who marched were supporting me. They were supporting
my position and this vidicates that I was right in saying that".
- Bertie Ahern, claiming that Ireland's exllcusion from contracts to
rebuild Iraq by the US is connected to the Government's 'anti-war'
stance. Dec 2003.
This is the statement that made most anti-war people's stomachs
churn. This man was never at an anti-war demo, yet has the neck to say
100,000 people came out to support him ! Senator David Norris made a
point of asking the 5,000 people who turned out at the Mar 20, 2004
anniversary protest the question "Did you come out to support Bertie?"
to which the crowd shouted a resounding "No", but Bertie wasn't there
either, so he probably thinks that was one big pro FF rally too.
Bertie Ahern voted for war as in the "Name and Shame" section and
when a second UN resolution supporting the war would be vetoed by
France, China and Russia, he went along with the war anyway.
"It would be a significant contribution for which we would be very
grateful"
- Bush II hoping France, Germany and Russiaa will cancel Iraq's massive
debt burden while banning them from reconstruction contracts. Dec 2003.
" The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know
that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things
that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns.
There are things that we do not know we don't know. And each year we
discover a few more of those unknown unknowns."
- US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld befoore the war in Iraq. The
comment won him the 2003 award for gobbledygook from the Plain English
campaign. Indo Review pg 11. Shannon airport is part of the
"conveyor belt of death" as Scott Ritter says, based on the new Irish
foreign policy based on these "unknown unknowns".
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know
what I think, and... well, I assume it's what I said."
Donald Rumsfeld.
End of quotes from Irish Independent Dec 27, 2003, "Review 2003"
section *******
"I know what I know"
- Irish Minister for Justice & PD, Michhael McDowell in reply to
questioning for evidence when he claimed that journalists regularly
bribe Gardai for information. Phoeix annual 2003, pg 52.
Ignorance Is The Cosmic Sin, The One Never Forgiven !
- Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud, Australian Mining Pioneer
"Give up Vietnam and you wind up losing India. Thats the plain truth.
They're out to get us, and don't think they're not. If you let a bully
pick on your helpless neighbour today, why tomorrow, he'll kick you out
of your front yard. And if you let him do that, the next day he'll kick
you out of your living room. And..."..." the day after that he'll be
upstairs raping your wife in your own bed". ...
- US President Lyndon Johnson, 1964. "The CCIA files" Pg 33.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a
montster"
- Friedrich Nietzche.
Politician, n.:
From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tete" ("head" or "face,"
as in "tete-a-tete": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien",
a person of two or more faces.
"If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will immediately
leap out, trying to save its life. If, on the other hand, you place the
same frog in a pot of luke warm water, it will happily remain
there. Slowly bring the water to the boil & the frog will not move,
It will sit there until it dies"...
- Anon. "The CIA files, secrets of the comppany" Mick Farren 1999. pg 39.
"Everything is going to be different. Many will suffer. A New World
order will emerge. It will be a much better world for those who survive.
In the long run, life will be better. The world we have wanted will be
a reality"
- Henry Kissinger in early 1970's. "TThe CIA files" . pg 50.
George Bush 1 also mentioned the "new world order" during a speech
he gave near the end of Gulf War 1. Presumably his son has the
same idealogy.
"Yes, we can expect that a number of US servicemen may expect that
their lives may not be fully lived out"
- Donald Rumsfeld when asked if US people ccan expect more servicemens
lives to be lost in Iraq. Irish Times 8/4/04 pg17.
"This is like Hue City in Vietnam"
- Leutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne of the USS marines - who compared
Fallujah to the Vietnam city that became a byword for lethal street
fighting. Irish Times 10/4/04 pg14.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it".
- anon. Irish Times 10/4/04 pg 15
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"President Bush might declare the hurley a weapon of mass destruction
and and bring in the US air force"
- Joe Higgins, TD, on the suggestion thaat President Bush would like to
attend a hurling match. Sunday Independent June 27 p.22.
Both from http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/...
"The late Pope John Paul II spoke clearly on the tragedy in Iraq, 'When
war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is
ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that
only peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united
society... Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of man.'
His successor, Pope Benedict XVI, also has spoke out, 'There were not
sufficient reasons to unleash a war against Iraq. To say nothing of the
fact that, given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go
beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it
is still licit to admit the very existence of a 'just war.''
From Hans Blix Jan. 2004 book "Disarming
Iraq - The search for weapons of mass destruction".
p36
"When the inspectors were kept out of the country after the
Desert Fox operation, Tariq Aziz was said to have expressed
satisfaction: It was enough to have sanctions. To have inspectors as
well had been too much. How successful has the US / UK been ? In bombing
Iraq to force better cooperation with the inspectors, they had attained
instead the end of these inspections."
p36
"Suddenly there was a lot of publicity indicating that UNSCOM had been
infiltrated by intelligence agents from various countries expecially the
US and the UK. They had been members of the inspection teams and had
been able (or so it was reported) to give their home organizations
information on military targets and the movements of the Iraqi
Leadership - both convenient for later bombing"
p110
"December 2002 had been a month of considerable buildup of our
inspection capability and we'd had a fair amount of Iraqi cooperation,
including prompt access to all sites UNMOVIC wished to inspect. January
2003 became a month of lowered expectations and increasing tension."
p229
"unjustified armed action by the US and the UK" is used by Blix to
describe the invasion which they started in 2003.
p256 Chapter 12 "After war:
Weapons of mass disappearance"
"However, the existence of the prohibited weapons, which had been
invoked as the foremost justification of the war, was not confirmed.
They were simply nowhere to be found."
p257
"As far as I have been able to check, neither UNSCOM nor UNMOVIC ever
found weapons on sites that had not been declared"
p260
"Even if one day there were to be solid evidence that Iraq had
maintained some low-key illegal programs, it would not change the
conclusion that the categorical assertions about the existence of WMD -
and the dismissal of doubts about those assertions - were plainly wrong"
p268
"The majority of the security council felt that it was too early to
abandon the path of inspections, which had been followed only for three
and a half months"