Iraq Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by…

— Arundhati Roy

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not.…

— Arundhati Roy

I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest…

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We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need…

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After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the…

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When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that…

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“To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by…

— Arundhati Roy

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was…

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After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,…

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Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it…

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In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

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When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's…

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The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a…

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Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…

— Arundhati Roy