Loose Cannons

Issue 

Peace danger looms

"The risk in the strategy [of allowing UN inspectors to return to Iraq], [US] officials note, is that the inspectors may visit those sites and discover nothing", — New York Times, November 14.

Washington, London and Canberra next?

"We will not tolerate any deception, denial or deceit, period" — George "the Crusader" Bush on why Baghdad will be bombed, quoted in the NYT, November 13.

Iraqi provocation

"We are prepared to receive the inspectors, so they can carry out their duties, and make sure that Iraq had not developed weapons of mass destruction, during their absence since 1998." — Iraq's letter to the United Nations, November 13.

Certainly not numeracy

"Job creation and economic security, as well as homeland security, are the two most important priorities we face." — George the Crusader, November 7.

From Green Left Weekly, November 20, 2002.
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