Bashir Assad Quotes

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

…another one of a sequence of quite disingenuous if not mendacious red herrings which the Foreign Office has drawn across the trail of history…

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

We have important things to talk to the Russians about, despite their meddling in our elections. I hope they're talking about a way to eventually end this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria, end that war. The Russians have more leverage than we do. I hope they're talking about the fact that, if Kim Jong-un's long-range missiles can reach Alaska one day, they can also reach Vladivostok.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.