Best Wartime Quotes (so far)

Self ^ | 11/16/01 | Self

[demsux]

My favorite quotes thus far into the campaign:

"I'm not gonna launch a two million dollar missile at a ten dollar tent and hit a camel in the butt" (GWB)

"It's like feeding an alligator so he eats you last" (Rummy)

"My first thought was what the Bush tax cut would do to the efforts to rebuild NYC" (Chelsea)

"My second thought was that I was glad my mom is a senator for NY so she can help the people" (Chelsea)

"Hey Osama, you can kiss my fat royal Irish butt" (Moran)

[RcWino]

These quotes are from the imagination of RcWino: My team is America and my team plays to win. What's your team? This war is like the Dream Team in the Olympics - no competition. Maybe the liberals would be happier if we fought this war with donkeys and pea shooters. If Al Gore were President our sole purpose would be not to offend the Taliban. If there were peaceniks on that fourth jet we wouldn't have a national Capitol. George Bush: "You're either with us or against us." The next Muslim country: "We haven't found any terrorist camps in our country." George Bush: "That's ok, we'll find them." It has taken the U.S. one month to do what the Soviet Union couldn't do in ten years. The Taliban to the U.S. Military: "Eat my dust." The U.S. Military to the Taliban: "Eat my daisy cutters." RcWino

[foreshadowed at waco]

The time for sympathy has now passed; the time for action has now arrived--GW Bush in his address to the UN.

--also loved his address to Congress when he said that we would 'hunt them down and smoke them out of their caves'--I love this guy.

[Howlin]

And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."

My personal favorite.

However, I do like this one from Rumsfeld:

REPORTER: Why are you using cluster bombs?

RUMSFELD: Because we're trying to kill them.

[SlightOfTongue]

Since it seems most quotes have been covered here, what would Andy Kaufman (as Latka) have said?

Maybe..."Mr. Fancy Pants bin laden, you are a shithead, and may you have your whole body explode in a big boom all over the place, and then may some more people cause pain to you by smashing your face with a railroad car or something even harder."

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"If he is delegating, he isn't guilty." Ambassador to Pakistan for the Taliban Regime re. Osama, Sept. 13th, 2001.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

"We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."

I would have agreed execpt he leftout communism to not piss off the chinese.

[Curly007]

"We will not waiver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail."
G.W.B. October 7, 2001

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"We will, no doubt, face new challenges. But we have our marching orders: My fellow Americans, let's roll."
G.W.B. November 8, 2001

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Belongs in the worst quotes record:

"The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don’t have an opinion on that." David Westin, ABC...how did the media punish one of their own...David Westin, newest AP Board Member.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"There is no corner of the earth distant or dark enough to protect them."

"This threat cannot be ignored. This threat can not be appeased."

"History will record our response and judge or justify every nation in this hall."

-President Bush addressing the UN- Nov. 10, 2001.

[flameout]

" We tried to get him but we did'nt have enough intellegence" Bill Clinton Please change the "we" to I.

[RcWino]

These quotes are from the imagination of RcWino: RcWino to Bill Clinton: "More soldiers died in your peacekeeping missions than in Afghanistan." Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

[flameout]

" We tried to get him but we did'nt have enough intellegence" Bill Clinton

Please change the "we" to I.

Oops.

[EverOnward]

11/6/01
Headline: Silence of 4 Terror Probe Suspects Poses Dilemma

Give me a cordless drill and five minutes and I'll have the hankie heads singing "God Bless America" like Kate Smith.
by IronJack

[EverOnward]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

114 posted on 11/7/01 11:11 AM Pacific by DeoGratias

[denydenydeny]

Andrea Peyser of the New York Post said that.

The one I can't remember the author of goes something like:

The only person who's going to be interviewing Osama is John Edward.

[Libloather]

"Danny Glover can bite me."

(Does that count?)

[bfree]

"I gave them a choice, they chose unwisely." GWB