War Crimes Quotes - Page 2

• You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

  Molly Crabapple

  War, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Soldier, Vietnam

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• If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, War, Long

  "On Terrorism". Interview with John Bolender, chomsky.info. January, 2004.

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• In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Cities, Occupation

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.46, Macmillan

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• As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Government, Self

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• It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Literature, Never Quit

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

  Uri Orbach

  Military, War, Israel

  "Israel bans national service with rights group B'Tselem in Gaza row" by Orlando Crowcroft, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because Saddam is beating him in the polls.

  Craig Kilborn

  War, Trials, Hussein

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• I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  War, Done, Guilty

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, p. 5, 1995.

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• We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Iraq, Leader

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• I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

  "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

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• Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Girl, Horse, War

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• If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

  Richard Dawkins

  War, Trials, Crime

  "Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 03, 2007.

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• The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  War, Rights, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Support, Effort

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Likewise to Saudi Arabia, where we just were selling another billion dollars worth of weapons, and we're not only selling the weapons but we are complicit in the war effort in Yemen where there are also incredible atrocities and war crimes being committed.

  Jill Stein

  War, Effort, Atrocities

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, War, Gentleman

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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• Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.

  Nikki Haley

  War, Believe, Issues

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

  Franjo Tuđman

  War, Loss, Emotional

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• When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

  David Roberts

  War, Science, Impact

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• We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  Lidia Yusupova

  Giving Up, Memories, War

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• It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis.

  Dahr Jamail

  War, Iraq, People

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• The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

  Warren Christopher

  War, Crime, Capacity

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• If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, Technology

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• It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

  David Roberts

  War, Should Have, Climate

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