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"Then the delegate from Papua New Guinea leaned into his microphone. "We seek your leadership," Kevin Conrad told the Americans. "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way."
- from "Compromise reached at Bali climate talks," AP, 16 December 2007


"Israel probably violated the terms of its arms deals with Washington by using US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon last year, a US government report says. The state department looked into Israel's use of cluster bombs in civilian areas of southern Lebanon during its conflict with Hezbollah. US-made weapons are sold to the Israeli military with restriction on their use. Cluster bombs can scatter hundreds of small bomblets over a wide area, and their use has been widely criticised. The International Committee of the Red Cross called for a ban on the use of cluster bombs in populated areas, because of the indiscriminate civilian deaths they caused. And Amnesty International has criticised Israel for its use of cluster bombs in the final days of the conflict."
- from "Israel 'broke US arms deal terms'," BBC, 29 January 2007


"400,000 dead out of a population of 4 million. Up to 3 million live in refugee camps protected by a force of only 2,200 soldiers from the African Union."
- the situation in Sudan's Darfur region, Information (in Danish), 10 June 2005


"Well, let us hope history repeats itself, and there's a possibility that the American people will get fed up with endless war, and endless deaths coming out -- American deaths. That's all we care about. We don't care about foreigners dying. But that is getting on people's nerves. I think that he [BUSH] thinks, and many of the American people appear to think, that we're in a movie. Lousy movie, but it's just a movie. And, once the final credits run, all those dead people, who were just extras anyway, will stand up and come home, or go back to the old actors' home. It isn't a movie we're in. It's real life. And these are real dead people. And there are more and more of them, and the world won't tolerate it."
- Gore VIDAL as interviewed by Amy GOODMAN on Democracy Now!, 25 January 2005