Aussie battler
“I believe I am entitled to be paid for my labour irrespective of how much of the company I own.” — Frank Lowy, who last year was paid $13.39 million as executive chairman of Westfield Holdings and who also heads the company's remuneration committee, quoted in the November 15-16 Australian.
Iraqisation
“We will write into that constitution exactly the kinds of guarantees that were not in Saddam's constitution... which will also provide in a limited time, probably two years, for a permanent constitution to be written that also embodies those American values.” — Washington Iraq viceroy Paul Bremer, November 17.
Nazi dreamland
“Perhaps some think this is fanciful or poetic, but to an immigrant like me, who, as a boy, saw Soviet tanks rolling through the streets of Austria ... it is not fanciful to see this state as a golden dream”. — From Arnold Schwarzenegger's inaugural address as California's new governor, November 17.
Winning hearts and minds
“In a tactic reminiscent of Israeli crackdowns in the West Bank and Gaza, the US military has begun destroying the homes of suspected guerrilla fighters in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, evacuating women and children, then leveling their houses with heavy weaponry.” — Knight Rider News Service report, November 18.
Appropriate
“The US military's code name for a crackdown on
resistance in Iraq [Operation Iron Hammer] was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War II.” — Reuters report, November 18.
From Green Left Weekly, November 26, 2003.
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