22 ordspråk av Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk
'If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours.
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"Epitaph on a Tyrant" is about Stalin, but is perfect for Saddam Hussein.
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American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened." You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source; there has to be this anonymous diplomat.
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Bin Laden has ceased to be important.
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Do you still speak Farsi?
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.
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In the aftermath, Sunnis from the east side of the Tigris told how they had tried to save pilgrims who fell on to the concrete by taking the injured to a Sunni mosque and university.
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It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush's 'war on terror' and his invasion of Iraq,
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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
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It's a scene of great carnage,
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No, no,
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Oh, it's nothing to do with Iraq. It is evil ideology. They are against our society. They are against our democracy. They are against our freedoms.
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President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.
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Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.
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The Americans may think they have "liberated" Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
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