Jacques Verges Quotes

#1. This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

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#2. You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

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#3. interviewer - would you have defended adolf hitler?
jacques verges - hell, i'd have even defended bush, as long as he pleads guilty!

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#4. Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

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#5. The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

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#6. It is good for society to have this introspection.

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#7. In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

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#8. I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

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#9. Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

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#10. Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

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#11. I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

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