War On Terror Quotes - Page 3

• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, States, Worst

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• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  War, Keys, Mind

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• The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

  Roger Mahony

  War, Oil, Rising

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  Barry Eisler

  War, Government, Groups

  "Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received from American women. Normally, men back military action by 10 to 20 points more than women do. But, after 9/11, women felt more endangered by terror and backed action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as strongly as men did.

  Dick Morris

  Strong, Military, War

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• The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.

  John McCain

  Hurt, War, America

  "Above the rule of law" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2005.

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• We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP.

  John Cole

  War, Agents, Terror

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• There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Analyzing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  War, Fighting, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

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• There's a fundamental difference between many of the Democrats and my party. And that is: They want to leave before the job is completed in Iraq. Again, I repeat: These are decent people. They're just as American as I am. I just happen to strongly disagree with them. And it's very important for the American people to understand the consequences of leaving Iraq before the job is done. This is a global war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Party, People

  George W. Bush's remarks at the news conference, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Hillary Clinton was the one pressing the hardest for bombing, and look at what happened. They not only destroyed the country, but Libya has become the center for jihad all over Africa and the Middle East. It's a total disaster in every respect, but it does not matter. Look at the so-called global war on terror.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Looks

  "Noam Chomsky: 'I have never seen such lunatics in the political system'". Interview with Simone Chun, www.salon.com. March 13, 2016.

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• Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect.

  Rafael Cruz

  War, Boston, Tragedy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Simple, Thinking

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, America, Years

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and that he is taking a different approach to Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, President, Different

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Democracy, Operations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred bases, but who's counting, why we need to basically bring those troops home and why we need to stop this policy of regime change, these wars on terror, which only create more terror. This needs to be debated.

  Jill Stein

  Country, War, Military

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Moving, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

  Andrew Lam

  War, Terrorism, Scapegoat

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

  Rick Perry

  War, Challenges, World

  Source: stream.org

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• Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that if you don't do what we tell you, the sky will fall. If you don't do what we tell you, it will be the end of capitalism as we know it. The failure of Lehman Brothers lent some credence to those fears.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Brother, Wall, War

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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