Loose Cannons

Only a crime if Iraqi generals do it

"It is important for the Iraqi leadership and Iraqi generals to clearly understand that if they take innocent life, if they destroy infrastructure, they will be held to account as war criminals." — George "The Crusader" Bush, February 25.

The White House ventriloquist ...

"It's hard for me to understand how you can vote for 1441, witness what has gone on from November and argue the converse of this [new draft]." — Crusader Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice at a February 24 White House press briefing, expressing her inability to understand how countries that voted for the UN Security Council resolution calling for the return to Iraq of weapons inspectors could not vote for the new US-British draft resolution authorising a war on Iraq.

... and her downunder dummy

"I find it hard to believe that, logically, any party or nation that voted for resolution 1441 15 weeks ago would not vote for this resolution." — Prime Menzies John Howard at a Canberra press conference held two hours after Rice's press briefing.

From Green Left Weekly, March 5, 2003.

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