Loose cannons

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Just behaves like one

"I do not feel like a dill." — Australian Defence Force chief Admiral Chris Barrie, speaking at a February 27 press conference at which he finally acknowledged what all his subordinates had been telling him for more than four months — that there was no evidence to support the Howard government's October 8 claim that children had been thrown overboard by asylum seekers.

Reach out with B52s

"The terrible events of September last year have driven home to the entire world the importance of reaching out to one another..." — from Prime Menzies John Howard's opening address to CHOGM 2002.

Well, they each did have two arms

"The main purpose of our operation [in the West Bank refugee camps] is to kill armed Palestinians who stand up to fight against us. We have already killed at least 20." — Brigadier-General Gershon Yitzchak, commander of Israeli military forces on the West Bank, March 1. Among the 20 Palestinians killed were 7-year-old Ibrahim Talalqa, 10-year-old Mariya Abu Siriya, 11 year-old Iyad al-Sabagh and 60-year-old Mahmoud Alloush.

From Green Left Weekly, March 6, 2002.
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