Old Fogey's Quotes for Friday
"This Republican Congress sat and watched the president make mistake after mistake after mistake. . . . You have adopted an approach of 'see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil' with abandon."
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
House Readies for Vote on Iraq
"I say, why keep them here? They are chickens? They say, if we send them to the court, the court will release them. I say this is the law, but it's in one ear and out the other."
Pusho Ibrahim Ali Daza Yei, Iraq's deputy justice minister, regarding large numbers of detainess at Abu Ghraib prison swept up in general raids
489 More Detainees Freed at Abu Ghraib
"Some people are tired of just fighting liberals. You need a reason to be a Southern Baptist other than just fighting liberals in the culture or in the church."
Bill Leonard, the dean of the Wake Forest University Divinity School, regarding the surprise election of a more moderate conservative to the the Southern Baptists
A Shift Among the Evangelicals
"I believe in the word of God. I'm just not mad about it."
Rev. Frank Page , newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention
A Shift Among the Evangelicals
"The CIA is in the forefront of efforts to make sure that democracy, individual rights and stuff like that don't get in the way of our crusade for the spread of democracy, individual rights and stuff like that."
Michael Kinsley in WAPO op-ed column
The Name Is Kafka . . . Franz Kafka
"Don't try this at home."
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) advised any Iraqi parliamentarians watching the congressional debate on Iraq
Why They Did The Things They Did
posted by Old Fogey @ 7:18 AM | Top o' the Cracks
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So many valuable lives have been lost in the Iraq fiasco, a country split in half, a so many other shameful things have happened. All of these product of governmental lies, cover-ups, budget shiftings thus reducing economic options for the American people...the rich get richer and the poor get poorer while been sodomized by the war- politicians.
If a president was almost impeached for lying about his sexual activities, what should we do about a president that has lied about the reasons for war, the war itself, the ineptitude demonstrated in handling the war aftermath, etc.?
It seems like a good deal of people only worry about the sexual sins of their presidents but hardly worry about lies that have been so costly in lives and put a decent country in dire straits.
Patriotism serves as a great cloak to hide all the political mental feces. The are many options a lot better to protect the country, the most important one...don't lie.
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