"We simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to

"We simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come."
Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense.
"We need scientific evidence. It is a medical issue, not only a judicial one."
Francois Cantier
Of Lawyers Without Borders, at a Libyan court after five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death on charges they deliberately infected hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.