Casualties Quotes - Page 9

• Obviously I pray every day there's less casualty.

  George W. Bush

  Praying, I Pray

  "Defiant US says Falluja dead were rebels" by Rory McCarthy and Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Fats

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Emotional, Media

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• [Alexander Haig and Ariel Sharon ] casualties in this war were more than in all the previous Arab - Israeli confrontations. If you remember, it is the only war [in 1982] which hasn't a hero among the Israeli generals.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Hero, Ariel

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?

  Curtis LeMay

  War, Korea, Years

  "Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton". Book by Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan, p. 88, 1988.

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• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  New York, Struggle, Home

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• I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Peace, War, Army

  Yitzhak Rabin's speech to the US Congress, July 26, 1994.

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