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2008-12-17 "If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America."
-- Ehud Barak, Defense Minister of Israel, speaking at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University
2008-12-15 "I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."
-- -- Dick Cheney, Vice-President USA, in an interview with ABC News in response to the question: "Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?"
2008-12-15 "On the question of so-called torture, we don't do torture. We never have. It's not something that this administration subscribes to. Again, we proceeded very cautiously. We checked. We had the Justice Department issue the requisite opinions in order to know where the bright lines were that you could not cross.

The professionals involved in that program were very, very cautious, very careful -- wouldn't do anything without making certain it was authorized and that it was legal. And any suggestion to the contrary is just wrong."
-- Dick Cheney, Vice-President USA, in an interview with ABC News
2008-12-07 "We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let them make a determination in terms of whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way.
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We need to ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy with Iran, making very clear to them that their development of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable, that their funding of terrorist organizations, their threats against Israel are contrary to everything we believe in.
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In terms of carrots, we can provide economic incentives that would be helpful to a country that despite being a net oil producer is under enormous strain, huge inflation, lot of employment problems.
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But we also have to focus on the sticks. In order for us to change Iran's behavior we may have to tighten up those sanctions."
-- Barack Obama, US President-elect, NBC's "Meet the Press" program
2008-12 "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security."
-- U.S. Army War College's Strategic Institute in a report
2008-10-31 "There was no justification to such act that unsettles atmospheres in the Middle East.
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Such an act will negatively affect the fragile peace process and the latest positive atmospheres prevailed in the Middle East".
-- Ban Ki-Moon, during a press conference in New Delhi, India
2008-10-30 The next administration needs to do better. The place to begin is with the candid recognition that the Global War on Terror has effectively ceased to exist.
-- Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, in his article 'Expanding War, Contracting Meaning'
2008-10-29 Pakistani foreign ministry summoned the United States ambassador to Pakistan and expressed its strong protest over the missile strikes by American drones in the country's tribal regions
2008-10-28 "The U.S. position is clear. We are supporting Macedonia's accession to NATO."
-- Stuart E. Jones, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, after his meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
2008-10-26 U.S. forces ferried by 4 helicopter crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a commando raid that left at least eight people dead.












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