Afghanistan Quotes - Page 16

• I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Government, Agreement, Presidential

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• Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Pakistan, Betray

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• I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Iraq, Driven

  Attributed to George Bush by Nabil Shaath in a TV documentary "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs", news.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2005.

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• Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

  Max Cleland

  Pakistan, Politics, Als

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• Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?

  Gwynne Dyer

  Thinking, Years, Politics

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• It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Thinking, Politics, Matter

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• It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

  Robert Greenwald

  Politics, Als, Months

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• It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

  Lawrence Korb

  Soldier, Cost, Politics

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• If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Politics, Minutes

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• We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Home, Men

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies the Holocaust and Warns Europeans of the Zionists: They Cling Like Ticks". www.memri.org. September 18, 2009.

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• If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Thinking, Opposites

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

  Philip Alston

  Rights, Law, United States

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• Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

  Andy Borowitz

  School, Army, America

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from May 02, 2012

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

  Ahmad

  Order, People, Assuming

  Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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• Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

  Thomas Friedman

  Als, Firsts, Terrorism

  Thomas L. Friedman (2002). “Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11”, p.356, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

  Zhou Yongkang

  Two, Fundamentals, Development

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• On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Borders, Looks

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• Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

  Hamid Karzai

  Strong, Years, Feet

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  Hamid Karzai

  Talking, America, United States

  "Interview with Representative Dana Rohrabacher". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Progress, Moved

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  Hamid Karzai

  Thinking, Taliban

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• The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

  Ted Rall

  Hero, Fighting, Iraq

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