Top 31 Quotes About Abu Ghraib

#1. But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.

Yaroslav Trofimov

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #24082
#2. The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #84252
#3. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

John Yoo

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #224208
#4. In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Janis Karpinski

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #272248
#5. We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

John Yoo

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #313418
#6. The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #342015
#7. I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.

Dennis Miller

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #385474
#8. He pressed his forearms flat against the wall, caging me with his body. Electric heat sparked in the space between us. He pulled back. His irises swirled with silver flecks, twisting into a metallic pool. His Wolf stared down at me. I don't want anyone touching you, except me.

Elizabeth Morgan

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #422119
#9. Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

Hunter S. Thompson

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #432563
#10. But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Alexandra Fuller

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #546497
#11. I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

Peter T. King

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #606266
#12. When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

Andrew Sullivan

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #621234
#13. The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

Shashi Tharoor

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #638743
#14. What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Carlos Fuentes

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #772176
#15. Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Taiichi Ohno

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #792544
#16. I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

Agatha Christie

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #805879
#17. It smelled like a slaughterhouse. I was standing in the interrogation room of Saddam Hussein's Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. A stench of blood and death permeated my senses, my clothes, my being.

Bernard B. Kerik

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #816331
#18. American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #854742
#19. The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Janis Karpinski

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #856850
#20. It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

John Yoo

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1048566
#21. The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.

Rand Beers

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1126827
#22. It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.

Richard Engel

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1156675
#23. It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Donald Rumsfeld

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1196712
#24. If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1392402
#25. If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.

Janis Karpinski

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1479270
#26. Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1546057
#27. The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

John Yoo

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1592921
#28. I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

Janis Karpinski

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1693649
#29. What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

Ali Khamenei

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1787573
#30. If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.

Joe Klein

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1844110
#31. Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Marty Meehan

Quotes About Abu Ghraib #1874403

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top