Chemical Weapons Quotes - Page 3

• Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Children, Pain, Love Is

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Reality, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2361, Penguin

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Pigs, Iran, Iraq

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• There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.

  Christopher Dodd

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, President

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• In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.

  Lindsey Graham

  Eye, President, Lines

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.

  Vladimir Putin

  Army, Views, Facts

  "G8 summit - day two: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2013.

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• The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  Country, Socialist Countries, Agreement

  "World Peace and the Developing Countries" Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, (p. 126), 1986.

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• The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

  Bashar al-Assad

  United States, Weapons, Firsts

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

  Barack Obama

  Regret, Assessment, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.

  Nikki Haley

  War, Believe, Issues

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.

  Barack Obama

  Weapons, Chemicals, Assad

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Isil, Weapons

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There's a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said "they didn't tell us how to use the chemical weapons" and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That's what she said.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Tunnels, Rebel, Twelve

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said "this is how we're going to kill the Syrian people."

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Rabbits, Video

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the investigation team came to Syria ; is it logical ? It's not logical. Even if a country or army wanted to use such weapon, they should have waited a few days till the investigation finished its work. It's not logical, the whole story doesn't even hold together.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Team, Army

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Should Have, Stories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Actually, he gave false evidence [of chemical weapons]. In this case,[John] Kerry didn't even present any evidence. He talked "we have evidence" and he didn't present anything. Not yet, nothing so far ; not a single shred of evidence.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Weapons, Chemicals, Cases

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Police, Soldier

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• [Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Believe, Reality, United States

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.

  Bob Graham

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  "Bush, Blair Decry Hussein" by Karen DeYoung, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2002.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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