If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

Cook is Britain's former foreign secretary. He resigned from the British Cabinet over the Iraq War.

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

from the online article posted at http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=1093

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

Tremblay is a Canadian-born economist.

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

From Trembaly's "The New American Empire." Tremblay is a Professor of Economic Science at the University of Montreal.

I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminals—rape, robbery and murder.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

People do not make wars; governments do.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The fact that certain planets are uninhabited may very well derive from the fact that their nuclear scientist are more advanced than ours.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.