Muntader Al-Zaidi

"Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.

We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.

I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.

As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.

When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora."
~Muntader Al-Zaidi

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23535.htm

War Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell


Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
~Blaise Pascal

Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
~Bruce Springsteen

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France

After victory, you have more enemies.
~Cicero

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~Condoleeza Rice

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
~Ernest Hemingway

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~General Douglas MacArthur

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
~General Douglas MacArthur

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~George Orwell

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~George W. Bush

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison

Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.
~Jean Jaques Rousseau

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~Jimmy Carter

The coward threatens when he is safe.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
~Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi

We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always defeated by the mind.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~Noam Chomsky


Either war is obsolete, or men are.
~R. Buckminster Fuller

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~Senator John McCain

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
~Sigmund Freud

If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero.
~Vassilis Epaminondou

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~Voltaire

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~William Colby, former CIA director

The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy.
~William Ramsey Clark

War and Propaganda

“All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
Hitler


“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”
Hitler


“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.”
Hitler


“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies.”
Hitler


“The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
Hitler


“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”
US President Harry S Truman


“Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Herman Goering


"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
Dr. Joseph Goebbels


“The plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a Holy War against the West or by using China to cause global conflict. Maybe both.”
David Icke - The Biggest Secret 1998.


“The Bush inauguration marks the start of the massive push by the Illuminati to further their agenda for a global fascist state. You will see this clearly unfolding in the next 24 months and, as usual, watch what they do, not what they say. Given that line-up and their mentality and agenda, don’t be at all surprised if the United States finds itself in another manipulated war during this administration. You will see monsters being created in the public mind to justify such action.”
David Icke website the day George Bush was inaugurated, January 20th 2001.


"At the end of the game the King and the Pawn go into the same box."
Italian proverb


"With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. ... A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority."
Dr. Stanley Milgram 1965


"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
U.S. President James Madison 1751-1836