Bombing Quotes - Page 10

• It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Empires, Imagine

  "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Shadow, Caves

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• When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.

  Richard Shepard

  War, Years, Europe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Suicide, Reality, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A faithful person who prays regularly does not go and plant bombs here and there. It is just people who pretend to be Muslims, those who depict themselves as Muslims, who perpetrate bombings, or Darwinists who make it clear that they are terrorists or communists who commit terrorism. Consequently, they are all Darwinists.

  Harun Yahya

  People, Faithful, Here And There

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Order, Campaigns

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• I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.

  Rob Cantrell

  Yelling, People, Guy

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  Country, America, Able

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• There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, People, Outcomes

  "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Iraq, World

  "O'Reilly: "We Do Not Speculate Here". FAIR.org, June 10, 2005.

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• I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Israel, Lebanon

  ""The US and Israel Stand Alone"". Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

  Ann Coulter

  War, People, Hell

  "Ann Coulter on Iraq and Immigration". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2005.

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• Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Heart, College, Cities

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• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Campaigns, Care

  "At the Pentagon". Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the news conference on the collapse of Saddam Hussein's government, the remaining resistance in Iraq and other subjects at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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• The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Atheist, Stars

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.191, Macmillan

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• Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

  John Pilger

  Running, Discovery, Secret

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• House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Iraq, House

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• I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Giving Up, Army, Cities

  Letter to Sir Norman Bottomley on March 29, 1945. "Bomber Harris: The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris". Book by Dudley Saward, p. 294, 1985.

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• I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• The killing of Osama has taken place nearly 13 years after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the death of over 200 people, in an act believed to have been masterminded by Osama. His killing is an act of justice to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the many more who suffered injuries.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Taken, Years, People

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• If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Suicide, People, Letters

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

  Chris Matthews

  Iran, Jackasses

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• I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

  Jon Stewart

  Country

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• If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  Mona Charen

  War, Memorial, World

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