Loose cannons

Santa's little helpers

"The HIH royal commission has heard the company threw extravagant Christmas parties for staff a little over a year before the company collapsed. The commission has been told HIH spent almost $1.2 million on Christmas parties in each state in 1999. The lavish Sydney do, which won organisers the award for Best Event Produced for a Corporation, carried the highest price tag, costing more than $735,000." — ABC News web site, September 27.

Or any other hypothetical scenario I can think of

"Each passing day could be one in which the Iraq regime gives anthrax or VX nerve gas or some nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally," George "The Crusader" Bush, September 26.

Family feud

"After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time." — George the Crusader, September 26.

Unlike all the other wars

"[The War on Terror is] not a very glamorous war from the sense that the cables and all the air time can cover, but it's happening." — George the Crusader, September 26.

From Green Left Weekly, October 2, 2002.

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From GLW issue 511