Quotes About War

The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the "cause" of this war with nothing to evaluate "objectively" and argue about.

Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?

Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. "I have seen young boys burned alive," he said. "I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.

Douglas wondered if his friend would make it out of this alive. He realized, not for the first time, that life or death was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the mission, their own small attempt to "proclaim liberty to the captives," as the Book of Isaiah had commanded nearly three thousand years before. To engage in a war where there would be no material benefit for the victor other than the liberation of oppressed and victimized human beings.

War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.

America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.