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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: sea_urchin who wrote (9539)12/20/2005 9:16:24 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
> ... elitism, fascism, colonialism, racism, self-righteousness, religious bigotry and the War on Terrorism in all its aspects. Each is a different string of the same violin which, at the moment, is playing one tune -- Zionism.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.

~Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

– Calgacus

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

~Donald Rumsfeld

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.

~General William Tecumseh Sherman

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

~Thucydides

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

~George Washington

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

~Noam Chomsky

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

~Albert Camus

That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

~Theodore Roosevelt