I like it when politicians speak, on the record with journalists. Invariably, their mouths open and you get to see exactly how mentally malnouished the leaders actually are.
President JoJo The Idiot Boy, in an interview with Scott Pelley from CBS’s "60 Minutes" said, "My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn’t find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability,"
Regarding the hanging of Saddam Hussein: "I thought it was discouraging… It’s important that that chapter of Iraqi history be closed. [But] They could have handled it a lot better."
Then there is the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, who is quoted on MSNBC, “They’re convinced that the United States will pack it in and go home if they just kill enough of us,” Cheney said. “They can’t beat us in a standup fight, but they think they can break our will.”
Cheney added this gem: “This is an existential conflict,” Cheney said. “It is the kind of conflict that’s going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term.”
Then, there is the quote from Perrin Beatty, ex-Canadian Cabinet Minister, now head of the Canadian Exporters and Manufacturers trade group, talking about the new eCustoms system on the Canada – US border: "If al-Qaida can damage us, either physically or economically, they win," Beatty told the news conference, referring to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization. "It would be foolish for us to assume that there will not be any further incidents along the border."
The key message in all these quotes, is that we have to be afraid and everything that is being done is absolutely critical to our continued well-being. In each quote, the subtext is that if you don’t agree, then you’re part of the problem.
However, my favourite is this one: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be grought to the biddiing of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
That last quote was from Hermann. W. Goering, (1912 – 1945) Luftwaffe Reichsmarschall.
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