“To send people off to die for a lie- I swear I never thought I’d see that again in my lifetime. We went through it in Vietnam. To me, it’s the most unconscionable thing you can do. It’s beyond impeachable. If we had just one house of Congress, this man would be impeached…How do you send people into a region, the most powerful superpower in the world, when you have no idea what’s going on there? I’m not an Arab expert. Fine. So read a book! Sit down and learn something!”
- Rob Reiner , November 13, 2005.
“Everything’s been built on lies. Everything! I mean the entire pretext for war.”
- Meredith Vieira , June 17, 2004.
“I think President George W. Bush, I think Cheney, I think Rumsfeld, I think all of these people have lost any moral integrity. I find what we are doing is hugely immoral…Al-Qaeda tortures. We torture. Al-Qaeda’s killed innocent people. We kill innocent people…We have no business doing what we do.”
- Harry Belafonte , January 23, 2007.
Diane Sawyer: “How long have you been here?…How many times a month do you say, ‘I don’t know that I can do another month of this? A day?”
Unidentified U.S. Army Captain: “No, I don’t. It doesn’t ever occur to me that way.”
- Diane Sawyer , April 10th’s “Good Morning America†show
“[George Bush and company are] lying about the war and profiting from it… This is indeed a league of bastards – these men are human scum.”
- John Cusack , November 11, 2005.
“All around us are signs of global climate change. And this Administration’s [the Bush Administration's] response is to send in more troops. If you don’t think there is a link between the weather and Iraq, you are wrong.â€
- Alec Baldwin
“We don’t want to secure that road [the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad], because we don’t want that war to end yet because we want to bring a sense of fear to Americans . . . It’s so sad and so pathetic.”
- Michael Moore
“I don’t want to hear another word about sending more troops . . . or ‘redeploying’ them, or waiting four months to begin the ‘phase-out.’ There is only one solution and it is this: Leave. Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can . . . Bring the troops home now. Now six months from now, now. Quit looking for a way to win. We can’t win. We’ve lost.”
- Michael Moore , 2006.
“Would defeat in Iraq be so Bad?”
- Leslie Gelb
“The idea that we’re going to win the war [in Iraq] is an idea which is just plain wrong.”
- Howard Dean , December 2005.
