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" In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. "

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" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" 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. "

" The U.N. charter bars the threat of force. "

" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "

" I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings. "

" Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. "

" Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq. "

" Control is the source of strategic power. "

" Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies. "

" The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. "

" There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. "

" I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. "

" Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber. "

" When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. "

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" Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. "

" In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders. "

" The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. "

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