Gulf War Quotes - Page 4

• When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

  Lily King

  Country, War, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

  Tom Harkin

  Sex, Teenage, War

  1991 Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 29 Sep.

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• During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Government, Challenges

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, War, Victory

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• Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

  Saddam Hussein

  War, Night, August

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• One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Marching On, Our Veterans

  "Don Imus interviews former President George H.W. Bush". Interview with Don Imus, www.chron.com. September 1, 2004.

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• Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  War, Hands, Civilization

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• The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.' - HAROLD PINTER A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present, and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed.

  Philip Berrigan

  Baby, War, Eye

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• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Girl, Jobs, Children

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• President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, War

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well... we looked at the receipts."

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, War, Humor

  "Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Wall, War, Cutting

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• I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

  Martin Sheen

  Father, War, Winning

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• Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

  William J. Clinton

  Couple, Military, War

  "Clinton Airs Views on Iraq, Affirmative Action". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.npr.org. March 6, 2003.

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• I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

  John Kasich

  War, People, Troops

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.

  John Kasich

  War, Isis, Kuwait

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.

  Bucky Pope

  Song, War, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  War, Israel, United States

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.

  George Meyer

  Kings, War, Character

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

  Saddam Hussein

  War, Army, Hussein

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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