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 "Individuals
have international duties which transcend the national obligations
of obedience. ... Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to
violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity
from occurring."
Nuremburg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
Photo:
© Jim West / GlobalAware - Civil Disobedience in Detroit, March
18th 2003. |
| Choice quote
for these sad times!
"If you watch too much TV news coverage, your perspective
can get warped."
Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News Channel commentator |
PICK
of the QUOTES! |
| "Conscience has become the watchword
of this war. [British] ministers have resigned because of it or stayed
for lack of it. Even Hollywood's Oscar hopefuls have instructed their
dress designers to go easy on the sequins, out of deference to anyone
incinerated in Baghdad." Mary Riddell, The London Observer |
23/03/2003 |
| "The American people are not as casualty-sensitive
as the weenies in the American press are." Fred Barnes, the executive
editor of The Weekly Standard and a commentator for the Fox News Channel. |
24/03/2003 |
| Rumsfeld, defense secretary, on NBC program:
Meet the Press. " A War is a War. It's a brutal thing." |
24/03/2003 |
| "I can tell you that these soldiers have been amazing
to us. they have done anything and everything that we could ask of
them, and we in turn are trying to return the favour by doing anything
and everything that they can ask of us." David Bloom, NBC News
correspondent travelling with the US Third Infantry. |
25/03/2003 |
| "If you watch too much TV news coverage, your perspective
can get warped." Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News Channel commentator.
|
25/03/2003 |
| "The twilight of empires can last
a long time, but judging from his reckless unilateralism and his
economic vandalism, George Bush seems to be determined to do his
level best to hasten that decline." Mark Tran is business editor
of Guardian Unlimited. |
26/03/2003 |
| "Arab pride is at stake here. American
propaganda said it was going to be so quick and easy, meaning we Arabs
are weak and unable to fight. Now it is like a Mike Tyson fight against
some weak guy. They don't want the weak guy knocked out in the first
40 seconds." Khaled M. Batarfi, the managing editor of the newspaper
Al Madina, Saudi Arabia. |
26/03/2003 |
| "How can you bomb people into democracy? Tyrants
have known forever that first you make the people afraid!" Alice
Daly, Peace Activist, Massachusetts, USA. |
26/03/2003 |
| "But nothing George Bush says on the subject of
Geneve Conventions and international legal standards is likely to
convince anyone. He has unleashed the greatest onslaught against international
law of any US president in living memory." Paul Knox, Columnist,
Globe and Mail, Canada. |
26/03/2003 |
| "They bomb and now they want to give water and
food. How can they do both? How? Jalil Ali, Aged 25, Iraqi during
the first food and water distribution. |
27/03/2003 |
| "We are sending a clear signal
to the world that we will not submit to a future in which dictators
and terrorists can arm and threaten the peace without consequence."
President George W. Bush. |
29/03/2003 |
| "There is an organized pattern of resistance. Their
determination is somewhat of a surprise to us all. What we were really
hoping was to just go through and everyone would wave flags and stuff."
Brig. Gen. John F. Kelly, assistant commander of the First Marine
Division. |
29/03/2003 |
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"When there are many men lacking decency,
there are always others who have in themselves the decency of many.
They are the ones who rebel with terrible force against the robbers
of their people's freedom." Jose Marti, Cuban Revolutionary.
Thanks to Usman, Vancouver. |
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