Civilians Quotations | Page 2

The attacks against coalition forces have definitely gone down. Our attacks against the enemy have gone up. Attacks against civilians over time has gone up,

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

not only Afghan civilians and the Afghan people but the whole process that has started in Afghanistan, which is basically for peace and stability and prosperity.

So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

Armed conflicts often involve discrepancies of power between adversaries. Allowing those discrepancies to justify attacking civilians would create an immense loophole in the protections of international humanitarian law.

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

The military campaign is perceived by most people to be unsuccessful, largely because the only stories we hear these days are about civilians getting killed,

Iraqis are being targeted at an unprecedented rate. Wary of the ability of police and soldiers to provide protection, civilians are attempting to provide their own security, relying on neighbors and family or hiring armed guards.

Civilians in the east are looking to their government for protection. But in many cases government soldiers are acting little better than the insurgent groups.

Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.

Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

For probably the first time in American history, civilians are asked to make no sacrifices in a time of war. We don't have a draft. There is no gas rationing the way there was in World War II. There is no increase in taxes; we get tax cuts instead. These acts are small ways of showing some recognition, because we're not doing it any other way.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

These are people who were either civilians caught up, trapped, sent to camps, or in some cases American military men.

The Challenger accident was a wake-up call in many ways. The tragedy of losing a crew was bad enough, but losing civilians and a teacher who had been selected and prepared for the mission, was an even more tragic loss.

The main problem is protection of civilians in rural areas, in villages and outside the camps in general.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?