Quotable Quotes

[Godless Dave]

"It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces." - Paul Wolfowitz, February 2003

[viscousmemories]

"Then I saw her face... now I'm a believer." - The Monkees, 1967

[Johnny Pneumatic]

One of my sigs, one of my favorite sigs I've ever had; "If we don't play god, who will?"-James Watson, of DNA fame

[Petra]

"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses." -Edward Abbey


What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose: Thomas Jefferson

[Dingfod]

"Anyone that doesn't like dogs or children can't be all bad."--W.C. Fields

[alphamale]

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998

[Crumb]

I wonder if by respond President Clinton meant invade?

[alphamale]

Originally Posted by Crumb

I wonder if by respond President Clinton meant invade?

No, he meant send a strongly worded letter of protest to the U.N.

[Crumb]

Do I detect sarcasm?

[Petra]

Originally Posted by Crumb

I wonder if by respond President Clinton meant invade?

Possibly. Depends on the WIIFM factor and whether it would personally have been worth it for him.

I just wonder if he would have fucked it up as badly as Bush did.

[Godless Dave]

Originally Posted by alphamale

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998

Notice he said that in 1998, before inspectors got back in and confirmed that Clinton's strategy had, in fact, worked.