Expert opinion I
“If you had hired actors you could not have gotten better coverage” — Kenneth Bacon, a former Pentagon spokesperson, commenting on the corporate media's coverage of the US invasion of Iraq.
Expert opinion II
“Everyone knows he [US President George Bush] lied about weapons of mass destruction being the point of the war.” — David MacMichael and Ray McGovern, former CIA analysts, April 25.
Land of the free
“Like it or not, the power and reach of the United States have already turned it into an empire. Indeed, it has been one in some form or another for more than 100 years, ever since the United States triumphed in the Spanish-American War and American troops occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.” — New York Times, May 10.
War hawks' love-in I
“He had a requirement for a speechwriter. Now if you know Don Rumsfeld, throughout his career, he's always had a requirement for a speechwriter because he has great difficulty keeping speechwriters... That's how I was hired. That was, of course, just before he developed his suave, smooth, warm, fuzzy personality that we've all grown to love over the years.” — US Vice-President Dick “Halliburton” Cheney, May 13, recalling how he was hired by present US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld 35 years ago when “Rummy” was a junior member of then-president Richard Nixon's administration.
War hawks' love-in II
“A superb executive, a wise counselor, the vice president is a combination of both thinker and doer. I am sure glad I discovered him!” — Rumsfeld, May 13.
Spectacular job
“This is an outstanding American who is doing a spectacular job for this country.” — Rumsfeld, May 13, denying that his close friend, retired general Jay Garner, had been removed as US viceroy in Iraq because he'd failed to impress upon Iraqis the joys of being part of the US empire.
From Green Left Weekly, May 21, 2003.
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