Hoping another US invasion?
“So, they [US officials] haven't been able to confirm reports he [Saddam Hussein] was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria.” — Multi-millionaire NBC Today Show host Katie Curic, April 10.
He meant `order'
“It'll take time to restore chaos.” — George “The Crusader” Bush, April 14, responding to a reporter's question about what the US occupation forces in Baghdad would do to stop widespread looting.
He meant `conquest'
“Freedom is a beautiful thing.” — Crusader Bush, responding to the same question.
Bigotry in media
“The pitiful state of Arab science, the tyrannies, the economic misery — these all stem from the Muslims' rejection of a cardinal Western value: reason.” — Elan Journo, a writer for the California-based Ayn Rand Institute (described by itself as “The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism”), in an April 15 article carried on the US right-wing Accuracy in Media web site.
Spoils of war
“This has never been done before — an American corporation rebuilding an entire foreign country.” — Comment to Los Angeles Times by Danielle Brian, executive director of Washington-based Project on Government Oversight, on April 17 decision by the US government awarded the San Francisco-based Bechtel corporation what the Los Angeles Times described as “a sweeping $680 million contract to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq, a massive task that will involve everything from airports, schools, roads, bridges and railroads to its power grids, water systems and sewers”.
Living in denial
“I don't know that there is much reconstruction to do.” — US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld, April 17.
From Green Left Weekly, April 23, 2003.
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