"Policy errors during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq have created a situation in Iraq worse than it needed to be."

"After a cowardly, dishonest and lack-lustre campaign by Australian Labor - which strenuously avoided the issue of Iraq in craven deference to the US administration, the American-dominated Australian press and an ill-informed, prejudiced and conservative Australian electorate - the conservative Coalition Government won a decisive victory thanks to bigotry, ignorance, fear and small-minded selfishness."

"While many, including his friends within and outside PAS, might have forgiven him because of his personal ordeal, the question remains of who Anwar’s friends will be from now on. Because of his ties to western leaders who contacted him upon his release, such as Paul Wolfowitz and Al Gore, many Malaysians are waiting to see whether his close rapport with these people will influence whom he chooses to associate with in future."

"The desire on the right to deify Reagan and preserve his legacy has made support for missile defense a litmus test issue—even though it has little to do with national security."

"...I am flabbergasted that this degree of racism is sanctioned by the guardians of democracy in the 21st century."

"Republicans don't seem to realize that they are no longer individual members of a coherent "party," but are merely part of a mean-spirited and dangerous movement that is theatening to sweep away democracy as we know it."

"While Vice President Cheney was attempting to defend a failed policy, Edwards' response was a studied one, that was political. Herein lies the problem."

"We have warned many times that the young Arab and Muslim generation in the world will not stand aside forever while the TV brings reports every day that show how the Arab nation is humiliated. The apathy of the Arab and Muslim governments towards the events in the occupied Palestinian territories looks to them like humiliating cowardice or rank treason."