Loose cannons

Insane bomber I

"If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You're dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out." — US Republican senator Trent Lott, quoted in the Washington Hill newspaper, October 19, when asked if he favoured any changes to US policy in Iraq.

Insane bomber II

"The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership." — Emperor George Bush II, October 28.

Same thing really

"The men are being attacked by Syrian-trained terrorists and local freedom fighters." — Captain Christopher Cirino of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division in the central Iraq city of Fallujah, quoted in the October 27 British Independent newspaper.

Certainly more than will miss you

"There's a lot of — some people who are upset [Saddam Hussein] is no longer in power." — Emperor Bush, November 4.

Modest affair

"I think we've been describing quite a modest affair but these costs are borne within budget[s] that exist within ceremonial hospitality and within official establishments." — Andrew Metcalfe, spokesperson for Prime Menzies John Howard, commenting on November 4, after revealing to a Senate estimates committee that the federal government spent $25,000, including $4500 on food and beverages, on Emperor Bush's BBQ at the Lodge on October 23.

From Green Left Weekly, November 12, 2003.

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