Bin Laden Quotes - Page 5

• I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban.

  Robert Scheer

  Special, Needs, Use

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Jobs, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

  Barack Obama

  Blood, Hands, Osama Bin Laden

  Source: genius.com

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• The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

  Tariq Ali

  Thinking, Osama Bin Laden, States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, Fans, Mail

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• Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

  Irshad Manji

  Thinking, Long, Isms

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• Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

  Irshad Manji

  Years, Guy, Lasts

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• A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

  Irshad Manji

  Country, Alternatives, Isms

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• We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

  Irshad Manji

  Love Life, Thinking, Giving

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• Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
  That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Liberty

  FaceBook post by Ras Kass from May 03, 2011

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• Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

  Eric Holder

  Reading, Reality, Rights

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• A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Military, America

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Political, Violence

  "The Atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

  Michael Scheuer

  Men, Worry, Enemy

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• The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Spring, Osama Bin Laden, Irrelevant

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• I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Ideas, People, Flags

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• I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Interrogation Techniques, Support, Shining

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

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• It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world.

  James Byron Bissett

  Hate, Islamic, School

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• Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Grateful, School

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• Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

  Edward Said

  Land, Arabia, Sacred

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

  Tim Kaine

  Way, Threat, Terrorist

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Wise, Civilization, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.

  Michael Scheuer

  Party, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

  Michael Scheuer

  Catholic, Bosnia, Croatia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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