a few quotes to remind us how we got where we are today

September 5, 2003 11:24 PM

a few quotes to remind us how we got where we are today via atrios
words from our leaders, and ms. ivins to mull over on saturday. while we are at it - perspective from baghdad might be worth your while as well.
posted by specialk420 (6 comments total)

Interesting similarity. How glommed who? (column, not FPP)
posted by ElvisJesus at 6:42 AM on September 6, 2003

"I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction." -- Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board, March 23, 2003.

"U.S. officials never expected that we were going to open garages and find weapons of mass destruction."
—National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
May 12, 2003

meanwhile... But his use of the phrase "revisionist historians" is similar to a line used by his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, who earlier this month warned against "revisionist history" in the context of Iraqi WMD. (ps check out the photo of bush on that page...how on earth did anyone get the picture? crotch-mounted camera aimed via remote control through the fly?)
posted by mcsweetie at 8:00 AM on September 6, 2003

(from the link)
Now what? Our people are over there like staked goats in the desert;

Well, who wouldn't like staked goats in the desert.
MMMMmmmmmmmnnnnn... steaked goats...
posted by jpburns at 9:05 AM on September 6, 2003

Condi's Phony History
posted by homunculus at 10:25 AM on September 6, 2003

> (ps check out the photo of bush on that page...how on
> earth did anyone get the picture? crotch-mounted camera >aimed via remote control through the fly?)

The picture was obviously taken by one of the small business owners
posted by kevinmil at 3:58 PM on September 6, 2003

By the way, if anyone wants to read the real Molly Ivins (who, for example, says, "There was no apparent connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda before this war, but there sure as hell {words omitted in version linked by specialk} is now")—use this link, not the dfw.com link (which you may have gotten from Drudge).

It's interesting to see how everything from foul language to French expressions are toned/dumbed down for so much of the Uhmerkun audience.
posted by Zurishaddai at 8:59 PM on September 6, 2003