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Ted
Turner Quotes
"Even with our $500 billion military budget, we can’t win in Iraq. We’re being beaten by insurgents who don’t even have any tanks, they don’t have a headquarters, they don’t have a Pentagon....I think that they’re patriots, and that they don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing: we’d be bombing them, too. Nobody wants to be invaded." — CNN founder Ted Turner on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April
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"The
Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they
have. The Israelis ... they've got one of the most powerful military machines
in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case The Guardian UK Tuesday June 18, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,739466,00.html
Below
are excerpts from stories in today’s Providence Journal and Brown Daily
Herald Asked
about plans for a "Star Wars" defense system to shoot down ballistic
missiles, Turner said, "I think it would be a lot more cost effective
to negotiate a treaty" with nations possessing nuclear weapons. "It's
just more and more expensive all the time when we need to use the money
for education, and health care and improving the human condition. I don't
believe people should kill each other or hurt each Of
the 19 men who hijacked the planes that hit the towers, he said, "I
think they were brave at the very least." He asked for a show of
hands of people who would act as suicide Turner
said that people in developed nations must adopt a global outlook and
help those in developing nations. "The reason that the World Trade
Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty
out there who don't have any hope for a better life," he said. February 12, 2002 MediaResearch.org http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020212_extra.asp
“The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don’t have any hope for a better life....I think they [the 19 hijackers] were brave at the very least.” February 11, 2002 remarks at Brown University Compiled by Thomas George
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