Bombing Quotes - Page 3

• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  M.I.A.

  War, Voice, Support

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• The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, America, People

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.958, Government Printing Office

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• Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Brother, Motivation, Boston

  "The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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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. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Israel, Two

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

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• The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Men, Cities

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• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Squares

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• The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Suicide, Religious, Community

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Rights, July

  George W. Bush's address to the people of London on the terrorist bombings, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 7, 2005.

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• Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

  Kent Hovind

  Oklahoma City, Government, Cities

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Book by Kent Hovind, 2003.

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• What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Chinese, Faces

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• A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

  John McCain

  Children, Hero, Men

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• The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

  Ernest Rutherford

  War, Mean, Air

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• I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, July, Humanity

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• These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Numbers, Cities

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Sir Winston Churchill, K. G., P. C., O. M., C. H., M. P.: selections from his writings and speeches”

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• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  War, Good Things, Should

  "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

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• So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Night, Missing

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.7, Vintage

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

  Banksy

  Country, Military, Army

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• Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

  Kris Kristofferson

  People, Killing, Reason

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

  Douglas Coupland

  War, Ambition, Greed

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• 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, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

  Steven Pinker

  Media, People, Events

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