The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth

To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

That will be the big question — can our work force get back? It will be a big hurdle getting people back into their homes.

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,