Bombing Quotes
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Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City.
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More Bombing Quotes
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist incidents, "The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond. Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it.
rudy giuliani— As quoted in "Giuliani Faults Bill Clinton for Terror Response in 1990s" (26 June 2007)
Kenzaburo Oe has devoted his life to taking certain subjects seriously — victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the struggles of the people of Okinawa, the challenges of the disabled, the discipline of the scholarly life — while not appearing to take himself seriously at all. Although he is known in Japan as much for being a gadfly activist as for being one of the country’s most celebrated writers, in person Oe is more of a delightful wag
kenzaburō Ōe— Sarah Fay, in "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195" in The Paris Review (Winter 2007)
Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon so long as there is no answer to it gives claws to the weak.
george orwell— "You and the Atom Bomb", Tribune (19 October 1945)
If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.
gholam-reza aghazadeh— UCF and Natanz Facilities Are Built in Tunnels Deep Underground in a Mountain; Bombing Would Not Cause Radioactive Contamination(February 2006)
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go on with the war. That is our object; we shall pursue it relentlessly.
arthur travers harris— Radio address (28 July 1942), as quoted by Sir Courtauld Thomson, in a House of Lords debate on bombing policy (9 February 1944)
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
arthur travers harris— Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg, as quoted in The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War (1991), by Merrily Weisbord and Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107.
Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.
carl rowan— April 25, 1995 Washington Post.
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.
albert speer— Quoted in "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" - Page 363 - by Albert Speer - National socialists - 1971
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
george wallace— Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics (2006) by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.
jimmy carter— Interview, The US and Israel Stand Alone. Der Spiegel (August 15, 2006).
"Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?"
kent hovind— "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order Video - Part 5" @1:36:10, June 2003
Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.
Bill O'Reilly— 2001-09-14O'Reilly: "We Do Not Speculate Here". FAIR.org (2005-06-10). Retrieved on 2010-11-19.
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
Donald Rumsfeld— DoD News Briefing April 09, 2003 [38]
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.
robert charles wilson— p. 191 (Spin (2005))
"Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?"
— "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order Video - Part 5" @1:36:10, June 2003
Eyes are shedding tears, and the heart feels pain and sadness for our people in Lebanon due to the bombing, terror and clear aggression that the Zionist enemy conducts and that is shielded by a number of countries, including the United States.
— Muqtada al-Sadr, July 14, 2006 [85]
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
— Robert Charles Wilson, in Spin, p.92
A similar statement appears in the US Strategic bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
george marshall— Unsourced variant: The only way to win a war is to prevent it.
"bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.
christopher hitchens— "Christopher Hitchens on why peace-lovers must welcome this war", The Mirror, 15 November 2001 : On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
"bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.
— Christopher Hitchens, "Christopher Hitchens on why peace-lovers must welcome this war", The Mirror, 15 November 2001
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.
arthur travers harris— Letter to Sir Norman Bottomley (29 March 1945), quoted in [ Bomber Harris: The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris (1985) by Dudley Saward, p. 294
The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.
otto ohlendorf— To Leon Goldensohn, March 1, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
wendell berry— Commencement address at Lindsey Wilson College (14 May 2005)
