Bill Pullman Quotes

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

Iraq is an unjust war. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

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.

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

America responded to the 9-11 attacks by invading Iraq, only to discover that Saddam Hussein had palaces of mass luxury, not weapons of mass destruction.

Let American cities be bombarded and razed rather than pay a dollar to any foe for their safety.

If we give Al Haig his way, the next thing we know, we'll be carpet-bombing Central America.

He dons his warpaint. He goes into his war dance. He emits his warwhoops. He goes forth to battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a pink Army dentist. We may assume that this represents the depth and seriousness of the Communist penetration in this country at this time.