Wilfred Burchett Quotes

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.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

You're bombing that little piss-ant country up there [Vietnam], and you think you can blow them up. You've been doing this all the time. It's a bunch of crap about wanting to negotiate.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.

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.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

I do not regard the atomic bomb as a new weapon merely, but as a revolutionary change in the relations of man in the universe.

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.

It is folly to argue whether one weapon is more immoral than another. For, in a larger sense, it is war itself which is immoral.

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

Right now, I have nothing against America, except for the fact that it opposes the Palestinian people, and is destroying Iraq. Apart from this, America and I agree on everything.