January 1, 2010
"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, that’s not cowardly. Stupid maybe, but not cowardly."

— Bill Maher, from the television show “Politically Incorrect”.

December 23, 2009
"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times."

— Howard Zinn, from the article “The Old Way of Thinking” in The Progressive Magazine.