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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
by Carl Levin (Politician, American , born in 1934) keywords: access, armor, body, capability, civilians, common, easily, reason, sense, shoot, should, tell, through , us The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.
by Nong Duc Manh (Politician, Vietnamese , born in 2001) keywords: against, civilians, concrete, harm, identify, independent, interfere, need, should, sovereign, state, targets, terrorism, terrorist, used , war It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
by Dave Matthews (Musician, South African , born in 1967) keywords: administration, bush, civilians, criminal, frustrations, harm, line, lives, many, misguided, our, put, servicemen, way , women We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
by Robert McNamara (Public Servant, American , born in 1916) keywords: burned, children, civilians, death, doing, had, his, immoral, japanese, lose, lost, makes, men, recognized, side, thought, tokyo, win, women , would Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
by Barack Obama (President, American , born in 1961) keywords: achieve, attack, bombs, civilians, combat, continue, course, end, extremists, fail, goals, iraqi, mission, off, our, sectarian, set, spark, strife, terrorists, their, these, try, ultimately, violence , will There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.
by George Pataki (Politician, American , born in 1945) keywords: activity, adults, awful, before, between, children, civilians, engage, government, homes, innocent, kill, moral, places, seeking, terrorists, their, those, using, worship , would Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
by Sean Penn (Actor, American , born in 1960) keywords: american, attack, civilians, innocent, itself, may, medicine, most, nation, preemptive, prove, sacrificing, separate, soldiers, sovereign, temporary, unprecedented , well At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
by Charles Rangel (Politician, American , born in 1930) keywords: also, civilians, died, field, iraqi, killing, least, quagmire , stuck The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
by Neil Sheehan (Journalist, American , born in 1936) keywords: became, been, before, bring, civilian, civilians, destruction, greater, had, hamlets, itself, killing, myself, policy, still, than, understand, upsetting, vastly, very, wounding , wrong It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.
by Hugh Shelton (Soldier, American , born in 1942) keywords: attack, barbaric, basically, bringing, case, changing, citizens, civilians, did, face, great, innocent, know, murderers, our, states, terrorism, terrorists , united Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
by Clare Short (Politician, British , born in 1946) keywords: both, civilians, descending, gaza, into, iraq, obviously, retaliation, standards, state, targeting, terrorist, violence, world , worse It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
by Ike Skelton (Politician, American , born in 1931) keywords: acts, against, american, amnesty, civilians, clearest, commit, forces, iraq, military, possible, rewarded, send, signal, states, those, together, united, violence, vital , will I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.
by Joe Slovo (Politician, South African , born in 1926) keywords: almost, alone, any, arise, civilians, cliche, killed, say, should, side, situation, think, tragic, unavoidable, unique, us, virtually , where Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.
by Cliff Stearns (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: begin, certainly, civilians, did, just, murder, political, september , statement Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.
by Cliff Stearns (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: attacking, civilians, distinct, economic, entertainment, importance, increasingly, life, nightclubs, public, pursuing, route, such, symbolic, targets, terrorists, those, today, transportation , venues If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
by Stuart Symington (Businessman, American , born in 1901) keywords: civilians, going, killed, our, rather, than, their, them , would Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
by Gijs de Vries (Politician, Dutch , born in 1956) keywords: attacks, circumstances, civilians, illegal, indiscriminate, ought, peacetime, under , war It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
by Fred Woodworthtopics: War keywords: civilians, combat, get, healthy, human, hurt, innocent, otherwise, race, rid, seems, shame, such, terrible, trash, wars, way, wonderfully , would
