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Tom's Favorite Quotes |
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former US senator and Vietnam veteran "Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Sorry you didn't go when you had the chance." 18 September 2003 _____________ Top author and Vietnam veteran "Bush has surrounded himself with people whose principle skill is self-delusion, and whose principle aversion is hearing anything that doesn't conform to their preconceptions." 15 September 2003 _____________ Top "The best jihad is when a person speaks the truth before a tyrant ruler." (sayings and doings of the prophet Muhammad, PBUH) _____________ Top "... Mr. Bush's people have given as little thought to running America after the election as they gave to running Iraq after the fall of Baghdad." 5 Dec. 2003 _____________ Top "[T]here is no quicker way to get an Iraqi to laugh than to talk about how the United States is bringing freedom or democracy to the country." 7 April 2004 _____________ Top "If a new war in Iraq seems fraught with danger and uncertainty, just wait for the peace." 14 Mar. 2003 (5 days before invasion) _____________ Top "Like the swaggering, self-righteous Crusaders of old, we presume to be the savior of the souls of heathens while inevitably destroying our own." 2 Dec. 2003 _____________ Top "Wow, 130,000 troops on the ground, nearly 500 deaths and over a billion dollars a day, but they caught a guy living in a hole. Am I supposed to be dazzled?" 19 Dec. 2003 _____________ Top "This [the Bush administration] is a gang that not only can't shoot straight, it can't even think straight." 16 Dec. 2003 _____________ Top "Iraq is like Viet Nam on crack cocaine." 8 Mar. 2004 (quoted by Billy Kelly) _____________ Top "To rely on the wisdom of the people in power is the worst thing you can do." 6 Apr. 2004 _____________ Top |
Stan Goff The Noble Hadith Paul Krugman Rahul Mahajan Roger Morris Robert Scheer US Army Specialist (quoted by Michael Moore) Bernard Weiner Marilyn Young Howard Zinn |