"You know, the Nuremberg Tribunal called the war of aggression the supreme international crime, and it is. And George W. Bush has waged a war of aggression against Iraq. Heâs killed more than 100,000 people. Are their lives worth nothing? Can we have a moment of silence in memory of all the people who have died in Iraq because of the criminal acts of George W. Bush in waging this war of aggression? Every moment of their lives is fraught with danger right now because of us. The world is the most dangerous place itâs ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back. We canât wait four more years. There canât be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We donât know how many. They wonât even bother to count whoâs been killed or how many, or estimate how many. They just keep killing. Almost every day weâre reading about another checkpoint where some family got wiped out because they didnât do what they were supposed to do, according to the military there."
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Quoted in Ramsey Clark Described His Government As Humanityâs Ever More Threatening and Treacherous Enemy by Jay Janson, CounterCurrents, (Clark was speaking at an ANSWER Coalition protest of the 2nd inauguration of G.W. Bush Jr in January 2005) (21 April 2021)
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Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927 â April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.
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