The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we
\nwill accept their power and our weakness as something that has been
\nestablished by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other
\nthan the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death
\nand destruction. Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful
\nand strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.
\n– Subcomandante Marcos – Source: No to war, 2\/16\/03 <\/p>\n
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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is
\nattacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
\nfalsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
\nrefutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that
\nthe war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys
\nafter this process of grotesque self-deception.
– Mark Twain – Source: Chronicle of Young Satan<\/p>\n
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Each
\nof the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each
\nof the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their
\nscreams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The
\nU.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq – mostly volunteers in a poverty draft
\nfrom small towns and poor urban neighborhoods – are victims just as
\nmuch as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to
\ndie for a victory that will never be theirs.
– Arundhati Roy –
\nSource: Arundhati Roy, “Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of
\nEmpire,” 8\/24\/04
\nhttp:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/static\/Arundhati_Trans.shtml<\/p>\n
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