Posted on 11/16/2001 2:32:01 PM PST by 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)
Retired General Anthony Zinni was the commander of U.S. forces in the region at the time. He remembers differently. He told National Review that the 1998 cruise missile raid was a "million-to-one shot. ... There was a possibility [bin Laden] could have been there. My intelligence people did not put a lot of faith in that. ... As I was given this mission to do, I did not see that anyone had any degree of assurance or reliability that that was going to happen."
President Bush at the National Cathedral Prayer Service
This was (pretty much) stolen from Reagan.
But, I guess if you're going to do that, you may as well do it from the BEST.
Attributed to The Vast Right Wing on 11/16/01 (4:21 p.m. PST).
Insignificant security guard being run over by Hillary's motorcade.
A reporter was asking Rumsfield if he was directing the list of targets, in other words, is he telling them when and where to bomb.
Rumsfield's reply: "They have been told TO bomb"
All the press laughed. It was great.
Appeasement
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer. Quoted in: The Reader's Digest (Pleasantville, N.Y., Dec. 1954).
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Another from Rumsfeld ..... not sure that's verbatim but it's close.
Not sure to whom it was said ...... but that doesn't matter ..... someone in the media.
I think it was said in response to the question about why the media couldn't go along with the Special Ops guys ..... but that doesn't matter either ..... all the questions the media asks rate that answer.
Actually, it was by both of the degenerate Bitches.
"We have four-five provinces. But it is not important how many provinces we have under our control.
Once we did not have a single province, and then the time came when we had all the provinces, which we have lost in a week. So the numbers of the provinces are not important."
-- Taliban Clintonista, Mullah Omar in a BBC interview.
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