Mass Destruction Quotes - Page 2

• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Hussein

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

  Michael Scheuer

  Doubt, United States, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

  Victoria Clark

  Iraq, Numbers, Wmd

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

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• We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Iraq, People

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2003.

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• I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

  William Cohen

  Moving, Wmd, Rolling

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• Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Iraq, Nerves

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Wmd, Weapons

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 12 September 2002, New York, NY

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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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• We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

  Ari Fleischer

  Wmd, Iraq, Weapons

  "State of Denial". Book by Bob Woodward, October 2, 2006.

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• They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wmd, Iraq, Answers

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• I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

  David Petraeus

  War, Mean, Wmd

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• I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Iraq, Hussein

  George W. Bush's remarks after meeting with the Secretary of Defense, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2003.

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• The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Weapons

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

  Ari Fleischer

  Wmd, Iraq, Hussein

  "White House Awaits Iraqi Report With Skepticism". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2002.

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• Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Technology, Example, World

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Love, Peace, War

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Weapons, Justification

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Gun, People, Smoking

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hands, Luck, Bottles

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

  Derrick Jensen

  Hatred, Historical, Needs

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.295, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Gun, Iraq

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• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Government, Support

  "Cruise and Spielberg Back War". news.bbc.co.uk. September 26, 2002.

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• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Successful, Iran

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