"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
          — Benjamin Franklin

"To rely on the wisdom of the people in power is the worst thing you can do."
          — Howard Zinn (quoted in Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2004)

"The whole world is responsible for these murders, and a day will come that we say to the world, 'You supported Americans who killed us.'"
          — Anonymous Iraqi (quoted by Ali al-Fadhily, 10 July 2007)

"War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed."
          — John Cory

"History does not repeat itself, but it delights in patterns and symmetries."
          — Stephen Kinzer

"The higher up the tree the monkey climbs, the more all you can see of the monkey is his ass."
          — Haitian Proverb

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