The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we
will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been
established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other
than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death
and destruction. Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful
and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.
– Subcomandante Marcos – Source: No to war, 2/16/03

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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is
attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that
the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys
after this process of grotesque self-deception.
– Mark Twain – Source: Chronicle of Young Satan

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Each
of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each
of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their
screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The
U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq – mostly volunteers in a poverty draft
from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods – are victims just as
much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to
die for a victory that will never be theirs.
– Arundhati Roy –
Source: Arundhati Roy, “Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of
Empire,” 8/24/04
http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml