Loose Cannons

Old McBush, IEAE Oh!

"And then the North Koreans made a decision ... to ignore international ... agreements that they had reached, and start building potential nuclear weapons, enriching uranium. And now they are ... in the process of kicking out IEAE people." — George "the Crusader" Bush at a January 14 photo opportunity with the president of Poland.

So there!

"You said we're headed to war in Iraq — I don't know why you say that. I hope we're not headed to war in Iraq. I'm the person who gets to decide, not you." — "Crusader" Bush answers a reporter's question on December 31.

Israel, Pakistan, Uzbekistan ...

"The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American and to threats who are friends of America." — "Crusader" Bush during a January 3 speech in Fort Hood, Texas.

Or was it Iraq?

"And the time is getting worse. That's what people have got to understand up there in Washington or over there in Washington down there in Washington, whatever. Thought I was in Crawford for a minute." — "Crusader" speaking in Pennsylvania, January 16.

Anti-social democrat

"Polls or no polls, my job in a situation like this is sometimes to say the things that people don't want to hear." — British Prime Minister Tony "Poodle" Blair, quoted in the January 14 New York Times, responding to a poll that found only 13% of people in Britain would back a unilateral US-British war on Iraq.

Clear demand

"The president has said that he will have zero tolerance for this. The president has also said that Saddam Hussein will have to figure out exactly what zero tolerance means and when he means it." — Press statement by White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer, January 9.

From Green Left Weekly, January 22, 2003.

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