Quotes LXIX



"A good indication for a declining empire is its inherent tendency to say "no" to reality."
-- Ra HaCohen, LINK
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"There is an unspeakable evil that has been growing in this nation—and it predates Bush considerably..."
-- Eldritch, Rigorous Intuition forum
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"When war is over and we won it let's remember how we done it so we don't have to do it again."
-- Willie Nelson, "Peaceful Solution"
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When the Great War comes it will come out of "some damn fool thing in the Balkans."
-- Otto von Bismarck
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In the future, everyone will be a mass murderer for 15 minutes.
-- Stickdog99, RI Forum
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"It's easier to tear a country down than it is to rebuild a country,"
-- George W Bush
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"Do this, do that and the US will intervene and we will get Kosovo." They had been promising this for years. "Sacrifice your children by boycotting the schools; sacrifice your health by boycotting the hospitals; use your suffering to show foreign public opinion how we suffer under the Serbs, and the U.S. will come to our rescue."
-- Interview with Čedomir Prlinčević, Link
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"With Boutros-Ghali “unreachable on a commercial aircraft,” Annan “instructed the U.N.’s civilian officials and military commanders to relinquish for a limited period of time their authority to veto air strikes in Bosnia. For the first time in the war, the decision on the air strikes was solely in the hands of NATO.” The result was Operation Deliberate Force, the “largest military action in NATO history.”
-- Edward Herman and David Peterson, The Dismantling of Yugoslavia: A Study in Inhumanitarian Intervention (and a Western Liberal-Left Intellectual and Moral Collapse)
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"I don't take federal lobbyists' money."
-- Obama

"Lawyers at these registered lobbying firms have given Obama’s campaign $813,459 through February 1, 2008."
-- Corporate Crime Reporter
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“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”
-- Obama advisor Zbignew Brzezinski
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News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law. But, predictably, it is not being invoked to address the US prison camps at Guantanamo, the wide use of torture, the invasion and occupation of sovereign countries, the extraordinary rendition program. No, it is being thrown out forcefully as a condemnation of the Serbian government in the wake of Thursday's attack by protesters on the US embassy in Belgrade following the Bush administration's swift recognition of the declaration of independence by the southern Serbian province of Kosovo."
-- Jeremy Scahill
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"History is a trick played on the dead."
-- Unknown history teacher
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"On the bright side, disinfo-spotting is a growth industry."
-- Hugh Manatee
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"Hippies eventually reconcile with their parents
libertarians kill their fathers"
-- Forum snip
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Posted: Sun - March 2, 2008 at 08:54 PM            

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