Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Quotes

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Police do not belong in war zones.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not legally apply. Among the pros might be benefits for America's image, its ability to argue in future conflicts that the Conventions should be followed, and training soldiers to follow only the Geneva standards. Among the cons might be greater security and safety for our troops who capture and detain al Qaeda operatives and the ability to gather more actionable intelligence swiftly.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

War knows no law except that of might.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.