Selections from the No Comment Quotes Web site:
If What? If You Had Knitted Them A Quilt? If You Had Sung Them Lullabyes To Hasten Them To Their Sleep? What?
“[B]ecause of the actions we have taken, al Qaeda is weaker today than they would have been.”
– President Bush
“[T]he terrorist network is gaining strength and has established a safe haven in remote tribal areas of western Pakistan for training and planning attacks.”
– a new administration intelligence report from the National Counterterrorism Center entitled “Al-Qaida Better Positioned to Strike the West”
Because Oxygen Deprivation To The Brain Is Important For A Comedy To Be Successful (Hollywood Is In Worse Trouble Than I Ever Imagined)
“You’ll laugh till you can’t breathe.”
– Gene Shalit, on Today about The Simpsons Movie
There’s A Word For People Who Say Things Like This…It Rhymes With Reason, Although It’s Not Otherwise Connected To It…It Starts With A T…
“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.”
– Dennis Milligan, Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party
It Would Stop Being News If He Would Just Stop Repeating The Lie About It…
“Actually, I was hoping to solve the Iraqi issue diplomatically. That’s why I…worked with the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously passed a resolution that said disclose, disarm or face serious consequences. That was the message, the clear message to Saddam Hussein. He chose the course…It was his decision to make…”
– George W. Bush, July 12, 2007
“Yesterday [we] got information from the United States authorities that it would be prudent not to leave our staff in the [Iraq] region. I have just informed the Council that we will withdraw the [UN] inspectors.”
– UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, March 17, 2003, shortly before the invasion of Iraq
No Can Vandoo
“We’re hoping that by the end of this rotation … the so-called Vandoos rotation, we’ll have about 3,000 Afghan Army operating in the Kandahar province… And as we train more and more of the Afghan army to carry out their own operations, we will continue to withdraw. With more emphasis on training … at some stage [we’ll] basically be in reserve.”
– Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor explaining the plan that will ensure Canadian troops will not have to stay long in Afghanistan
“I don’t think anybody believes the job is going to be done by February, ’09… From an international community perspective, no one is under any illusions that Afghanistan will be self-sustaining and self-sufficient by February, ’09.”
– Lieutenant-General Michel Gauthier explaining why Canadian troops will have to stay long in Afghanistan
He Forgot The Doomsday Clock, The Biological Clock And The Clock Of The Long Now
“We’re racing against the clock, certainly. We’re racing against the Washington clock, the London clock, a variety of other timepieces up there, and we’ve got to figure out how to speed up the Baghdad clock.”
– Lieutenant General David Petraeus, American military commander in Iraq
They Stonewall, I Deride
“We will try to give you access as much as possible and give you updates and we hope that especially in the process of what we’re trying to achieve that there will be that mutual respect.”
– Conservative caucus chair Rahim Jaffer, on the proper care and feeding of the press during a weekend Conservative Party gathering
Is There An Historical Echo In Here?
“To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.”
– soon to be former President George W. Bush on why American troops should not be withdrawn from Iraq
The North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front had “instructed their cadres the moment a cease fire is announced to kill all of the opponents in the area that they control. This would be a murderous bloodbath.”
– former President Richard Nixon, as advised by White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, on why American troops should not be withdrawn from Vietnam