Fred Woodworth Quotes

Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed... There is a major clash.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually increased human suffering in those countries - many times over.

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

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.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Every war has revolutionary justice.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.