Weapons Quotes - Page 37

• George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Bush jokes about search for WMD, but it's no laughing matter for critics" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2004.

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• We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas.  His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Toxins, Chemicals, Clandestine

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• I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Believe, Iraq, Nuclear

  Hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14, 2003.

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• The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

  George W. Bush

  America, World, United States

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Fighting, Government

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Air

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• We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Growing, Chemicals

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

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

  Dick Cheney

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Doubt

  Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee

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• The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

  Dick Cheney

  Issues, Chemicals, Saddam

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• We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

  Dick Cheney

  Order, Needs, Nuclear

  "Threat by Iraq Grows, U.S. Says" by Robin Wright, articles.latimes.com. September 09, 2002.

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• We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.

  Dick Cheney

  Effort, Doubt, Levels

  "Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Hussein

  "Dick Cheney enters the 'No Spin Zone'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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• Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

  Jenny Holzer

  Hands, Messy, Elegant

  David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  War, Fighting, Order

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• The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

  Ardant du Picq

  Reality, Men, Soldier

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• We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

  Tony Blair

  Future, People, Vision

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• Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

  Janet Morris

  God, Fate, Use

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.551, Paradise Publishing

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• But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Country, Justice, Expectations

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• The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Sound, Violence, Hypothesis

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• I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, America, Algeria

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Men, Naked

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

  Isaac Asimov

  Emotional, World Government, Law

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• The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Sea, Pirate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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