Political Quotes

“President Bush, from all appearances, seems poised to attack the country of Iraq sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks according to news reports, according to reading a bit between the lines of statements coming from the Bush administration. The fundamental question about whether or not the United States should launch a preemptive strike without U.N. support against Iraq, the fundamental question is whether that attack against Iraq makes the United States a safer country and whether it makes American civilians traveling abroad, living abroad more importantly, perhaps, living in the United States, whether it makes all of us safer. The CIA says no. A CIA analysis said that the chances of what they call a blowback, meaning attacks against civilians from terrorists abroad or terrorists inside the United States, that attacks against civilians, the chances increase according to the CIA, so-called blowback, the term they used, the chances increase if we launch a preemptive strike against Iraq without U.N. support. Several four-star generals testified in the other body and said that an attack against Iraq without U.N. support, a preemptive attack will, in their words, supercharge al Qaeda recruiting. Common sense simply tells you that the U.S. will not be a safer place, will be a more dangerous place, that civilians in this country will in fact be in more danger if we unilaterally attack Iraq.”