Old Fogey's Quotes for Saturday

"I thought it was very sad, very unfortunate, but at the time, I did not suspect any wrongdoing from my Marines."
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marines, the battalion involved in the Haditha killings of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children
Officer Called Haditha Routine
[Killing children should never be considered routine]

"If you want to make a list of all the things the Bush administration has screwed up, they created this Frankenstein entity called the Coalition Provisional Authority."
Alan M. Grayson, attorney for the plaintiffs in a court case in which a federal judge threw out a $10 million jury verdict against an American company accused of overcharging on an Iraq reconstruction contract after concluding that the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority was not a U.S. government entity
Verdict Against Iraq Contractor Overturned
[We'd need a fulltime accountant to count all the dollars Bush incompetence and corruption has cost American taxpayers]

"Some reject the concept of addiction as a disease on the grounds that it removes responsibility from the addict. But in fact it gives the addicted person the responsibility for seeking and maintaining treatment for the disease, just as is the case for other diseases."
Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health
Treat Addiction, Cut Crime
[How can people believe that someone voluntarily chooses to lose everything they have? How can a billionaire actually believe that people would rather live at a subsistance level on welfare rather than work to earn millions?]

"These crimes could constitute impeachable offenses."
Jonathan Turley, an ally to independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the probe that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, regarding illegal wiretapping
Kenneth R. Bazinet
[How can Republicans actually believe that Clinton's lies about an affair are more serious than illegal and unconstitutional actions by Bush?]

“Every fall we discover that a few families have lost it over the summer and are camping out in the woods. So we help them find some kind of housing in town.”
Shelley Miller, who heads the family resource center at the public schools in Oakridge, Oregon, where the major mills have shut down
Rural Oregon Town Feels Pinch of Poverty
[Poverty has many faces in all kinds of places]