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| Thu, 07-08-2004 - 10:50am |
This thread is hereby officially dedicated to Democrats, liberals, and Kerry supporters. Make of it what you will, but please observe the TOS and refrain from personal remarks about other I-Village members.
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And we all know where that got them....If I want to hand my paycheck over to Harrah's or Amarastar that's my business...
I love former President Carter's quote and Edward Peck..
Celebrities speak out:
Dick Cheney, former U.S. defense secretary
If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein,you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave? (statement made in April 1991)
Nelson Mandela former president of South-Africa, Nobel peace price winner
"It is a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing in Iraq. What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
"Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea (the United Nations) which was sponsored by their predecessors"
"Are they saying this is a lesson that you should follow, or are they saying we are special, what we do should not be done by anyone?"
"Because they decided to kill innocent people in Japan, who are still suffering from that, who are they now to pretend that they are the policeman of the world?...
lf there is a country which has committed unspeakable atrocities, it is the United States of America...They don't care for human beings."
Sean Penn actor, visited Iraq in December 2002
"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented pre-emptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine"
"It's a war that is going to affect the generation of my children. Because of the technology and the heightened desperation of the world today, I think it's very possible that we are facing the first century that will complete itself without mankind -- and that's not the future that I want for my children, or for their children."
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States 1977-1981, Nobel peace price winner
Instead of entering a millennium of peace, the world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place. Equal understanding and mutual respect have not matched the greater ease of travel and communication. War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Madeline Albright, US secretary of state under President Bill Clinton
It would seem to me that we would be sacrificing a lot of the cooperation that we're getting in the fight against terrorism for what is unclear as a goal in Iraq.
Henry Kissinger
America's special responsibility is to work toward an international system that rests on more than military power; indeed, that strives to translate power into co-operation. Any other attitude will gradually isolate and exhaust America.
Michael Moore
We have a fictitious president who was elected with fictitious election results. He is now conducting a war for a fictitious reason.
Edward Peck, former US ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan's terrorism task force
Q: What did Iraq do to us?
Peck: The answer is nothing. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with Al Qaeda, its neighbors don't think it's a threat, invading Iraq will increase terrorism, not reduce it.
Read more about ambassador Peck
Martin Sheen, actor (The West Wing, Apocalypse now, Roswell, As the world turns)
A lot of people have been silenced for a long time but that is ending. We are telling the world that we are patriotic Americans but we do not support going to war with Iraq. From this time forth, may all our thoughts and deeds be a non-violent response to violence
Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran
The government is leading us into a situation that can only hurt us as a nation.
Tony Shalhoub, actor
This notion of preemptive war is setting a precedent ... and we must ask ourselves, where does this end? Where is the next preemptive strike?
Robert Redford, producer and actor (The horse whisperer, Out of Africa)
The Bush White House talks tough on military matters in the Middle East while remaining virtually silent about the long-term problems posed by US dependence on fossil fuels. The Bush administration's energy policy to date - a military garrison in the Middle East and drilling for oil in the Arctic and other fragile habitats - is costly, dangerous and self-defeating.
Martin Scorsese, film director
One hopes that this kind of war can be done diplomatically, with intelligence rather than wiping out a lot of innocent civilians.
There are a lot of Americans who feel that this is economic and part of it has to do with the oil, maybe most of it.
Robin Cook, former British foreign secretary, former House of Commons leader
I have made the case over the years for an international order based on multilateral decisions through the UN and other forums. In principle I believe it is wrong to embark on military action without broad international support. In practice I believe it is against Britain's interests to create a precedent for unilateral military action.
Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic church
When war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong an decisive voice, that only peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society. Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
Is it just me, or does it seem kind of silly that the Republicans are harping on John Edwards' lack of experience to be Vice President?
Mich
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Edited 7/9/2004 4:03 pm ET ET by baileyhouse
It's great to see someone local on this board...in St. Charles, we feel so "surrounded" by the enemy!
You'll have to attend the next local Kerry/Edwards meeting. They use the johnkerry.com site to hook everyone up.
Gotta go, talk to you later.
"It takes two John's to flush all the crap out of the White House"
:::Big Grin:::
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