"WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups.……" — Jemima Khan
"WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported."
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Jemima Khan
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10 Quotes by Jemima Khan
Jemima Khan has 10 quotes on this site.
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Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will…
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I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.
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In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
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The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have…
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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are…
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Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
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WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
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Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
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Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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