#pentagon

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

#country #dumps #end #guard #hostilities

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#dismantle #ever #government #pentagon #proposal

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#bright #center #day #desk #forget

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#congress #different #different kind #dollars #essentially

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering. ↗

— James Buchan

#blew #center #conveyed #least #messages

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#books #efficient #even #forces #go

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government