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• The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

  Kofi Annan

  Iraq, Occupation, Politics

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• Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Kuwait, Goal

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• The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

  Adam McKay

  Land, Stopping, Als

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2010.

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• He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

  Chanakya

  Running, Wisdom, Men

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• A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

  Victor Hugo

  Army, Ideas, Made

  'Histoire d'un Crime' (written 1851-2, published 1877) pt. 5, sect. 10

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• Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Long, People

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it.

  Gideon Gono

  Should

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• Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Cutting, Order, Years

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, People, Choices

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Soldier, Enemy, Contentment

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• Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Iraq, Leader

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Character, Winning, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Land, Iraq

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• Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

  John Dewey

  Inference, Leap, Known

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.162, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You might call that a peaceful invasion [of Muslims] but that`s the nicest thing can you call it. They`re not assimilating and they`re not assimilating because Sharia law is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States.

  Steve King

  Law, Peaceful, United States

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as soon as I heard rock and roll there was no stopping me. It was during the height of Beatlemania and the British invasion, but I gravitated toward the harder, heavier music going on then, you know, the early Rolling Stones, the good Rolling Stones, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, who don't get the credit they deserve for spearheading the American '60s garage sound.

  Jello Biafra

  Father, Sleep, Rocks

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.

  Josef Koudelka

  Prague, News, Care

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• He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

  Nat Hentoff

  Privacy, Disaster, Supervision

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

  Nat Hentoff

  Facts, Privacy, Barack

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade." And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.

  Bob Hawke

  Morning, Night, Iraq

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

  Trevor Noah

  Care, Language, Speak

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence is nonsense and that was proven when they invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said "Iraq has stockpiles of WMD" and it was proven after the invasion that this was false ; it was fraud. So, we can't depend on what one magazine wrote.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Media, Years

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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