The war in Iraq in Quotes - broad range

[peaccenicked]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_ea...ast/2906289.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2906289.stm)
Whats your favourite?

[Valkyrie]

"I extend my regrets to the families of Iraqis killed yesterday [at US checkpoint]. The climate established by the Iraqi regime contributed to this incident."

Their apologies are resoundingly hollow.



This one seems to sum up perpetual US policy:

"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer."
--Major Holdridge - (whoever the fuck that is.)




Right now I like this quote though:

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
- Thomas Carlyle


http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/9...9/milquote.html (http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/9969/milquote.html)

[Beccie]

US President George W Bush, 31 March:

We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.

I will never forget what George Bush said the day the war started:

“The US military will be the bringers of peace”

I think he has made a hobby out of lying.

[peaccenicked]

There is an old Arab saying I'm hearing more and more from Iraqis: "I will side with my brother against my cousin, but with my cousin against the foreigners".

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc just have not a clue.