| March
31, 2003
"The
first casualty of war is truth."
- Senator Hiram Johnson (CA), one of six Senators to vote against
American entry into World War I, 1917
"Fascism
should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger
of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
"We
are in the Mideast for three letters, oil, O-I-L."
- Bob Dole, speaking about the first Gulf War
"The
vast majority of the country's population has been on a semi-starvation
diet for years."
- World Health Organization reporting on Iraq
"They
were wrong during Vietnam, and they're wrong today."
- Former US Representative Bob Dornan, who also called Senator
John Kerry "a Judas Catholic."
"Americans
and indeed our foreign allies who actively work against our military
once the war is underway will be considered enemies of the state
by me."
- Bill O'Reilly
"There
are four countries that will never support us. Never. Cuba, Libya,
and Germany. I forget the fourth."
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
"We
should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly
shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us,
and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning
young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator
and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban
guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into
even greater instability."
- President George H. W. Bush, in his 1998 memoirs
"This
is scripted."
- President George W. Bush
"The
United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go
to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense."
- Jonah Goldberg, National Review
"A
tired, left-wing liberal out of touch with the current marketplace."
- Internal NBC memo describing MSNBC host Phil Donahue, whose
top-rated show was later cancelled
"A
Kuwaiti woman rode through the streets of Kuwait City on Wednesday
during celebrations marking the 12th anniversary of Liberation Day."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 27. Women have little or
no rights under the dictatorship of Kuwait.
"Using
both an iron fist and a velvet glove, the Pentagon expects to neutralize
Iraq's army, kill or capture Saddam - and leave the country's civilians
and most cities and towns untouched."
- USA Today, February 21
"...the
sponsors of these protests were not peace protesters at all. They
are all talking about racism, environmental wacko-ism, feminism
or other liberal causes. Very little about these protests was about
the war in Iraq. If they were for peace, they would give every dollar
they raise to the U.S. defense department because it's the U.S.
defense department that keeps the peace and liberates the oppressed
in the world and gives them the opportunity to have freedom, which
is what we want for Iraq. It's beyond me how anybody can look at
these protesters and call them anything other than what they are:
anti-American, anti-capitalist, pro Marxists and communists."
- Rush Limbaugh
"We
need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate
liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise
they will turn out to be outright traitors."
- Ann Coulter, speaking to the Conservative Political Action
Conference
"The
Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy
go way beyond what the Constitution requires."
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking at John Carroll
University
"War
protester auditions here today ... thanks for coming!
"Who won your right to show up here today? Protesters or soldiers?
"How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them.
"Attention protesters: the Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday
at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street"
- Fox News ticker, broadcast on the news ticker surrounding
their Sixth Avenue headquarters, responding to New York protesters
on March 27
"Where's
the Ohio National Guard when you really need it? Seriously? Hey,
if a campus crank can wish for personal calamity to befall U.S.
forces in Iraq, why not fantasize about a volley of Kent State-style
militia musketry rattled off in his general direction?"
- New York Post, March 30
"Protesting
this war while our troops are being killed is equal to treason.
You should all be shot."
- Pro-war sign at a Baton Rouge protest rally, March 31, alongside
American flags
"Despite
[their right to protest], I think these son-of-a-buggers deserve
a bullet in the head."
- Baton Rouge talk radio host Richard Condon
"There's
nothing like a war or rumors of war to resuscitate the anti-war
movement in the U.S.
"Every
leftist hatred came under attack: capitalism, colonialism, oppression,
racism, homophobia, gender discrimination, consumerism, individualism,
and on and on. Meaningless slogans dominated the festivities: 'No
Blood for Oil,' 'Drop Bush, Not Bombs,' 'Stop War, End Racism.'
"'Instead
of spending $400 billion every year for weapons of mass destruction
and to promote militarism,' the leftists maintain, 'our money must
spent to provide free education, healthcare and childcare, jobs
and job training, expanded support for the elderly and other things
that human beings need.'"
- Barrett Kalellis, Newsmax.com, January 21. Keep in mind that
he's criticizing the protesters.
"You
can support the troops but not the President."
- Sen. Trent Lott, speaking about the 1998 attacks in Kosovo
and Iraq
"The
spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican platform."
- Sen. Lott, again, speaking to the 1984 convention of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans
"The
people in this room stand for the right principles and the right
philosophy. Let's take it in the right direction, and our children
will be the beneficiaries."
- Sen. Lott, yet again, in remarks to a meeting of the Council
of Conservative Citizens in 1992. The CCC is the modern-day version
of the White Citizens Councils of the 1960s. |
