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Guess who made the following statements? You get only 3 guesses. The winner gets a boredom-filled weekend at the White House
Respectfully,
Kilgore Trout
The Top 19 Dumbest Statements of the Past Week
by Harry Browne
April 20, 2004
Politicians are a continual source of empty rhetoric, rosy promises that are never fulfilled, meaningless mom-and-apple-pie clichés, and outright lies.
Last week was a particularly fertile one for such inanities. Here are the week's 19 dumbest political statements. At the end of the list, I'll tell you who said them.
19. "Iraq will either be a peaceful, democratic country, or it will again be a source of violence, a haven for terror, and a threat to America and to the world."
Right now Iraq is "a source of violence" and certainly "a haven for terror." Or are all those bloody scenes we see on television just reruns from Miami Vice? And, of course, Iraq was never a threat to the America.
18. "Our nation honors the memory of those who have been killed, and we pray that their families will find God's comfort in the midst of their grief. . . . we will finish the work of the fallen."
In other words, Americans will continue to die as a tribute to those who have already died.
17. "We seek an independent, free and secure Iraq."
. . . Independent and free so long as it conforms to the conditions the U.S. government has laid down.
Liberation
16. "We are a liberating power, as nations in Europe and Asia can attest."
Don't forget the liberated Haitians, on whom we forced Aristide. And the liberated Iranians, on whom we forced the Shah. And the Philippines, on whom we forced Marcos. And the Dominican Republic, on whom we forced the Trujillos. And Indonesia, where the U.S. government helped Suharto liberate tens of thousands of East Timorese from the burden of living.
And what about those liberated Iraqis -- carrying identity cards, going through road blocks and checkpoints, liberated from freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, occupied by a foreign power, their towns ringed by barbed wire, subject to raids and attacks without warrants by the U.S. military, liberated from the right to carry a gun and defend oneself against murderers and rapists?
15. "The nation of Iraq is moving toward self-rule . . . We're working closely with the United Nations envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, and with Iraqis to determine the exact form of the government that will receive sovereignty on June 30th."
I'm sorry I must have misunderstood. I thought "self-rule" meant that people determined their own form of government -- not a government determined by the U.S. government or the United Nations. This sounds more like the "self-rule" the Soviet Union gave to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary at the end of World War II.
14. "Iraqi's neighbors also have responsibilities to make their region more stable."
And they will shortly receive the appropriate ultimatums to inform them of their responsibilities.
13. "Over the last several decades, we've seen that any concession or retreat on our part will only embolden this enemy and invite more bloodshed."
I haven't seen any concessions or retreats by the U.S. government. What I have seen are invasions of Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq; U.S. troops stationed at over 700 foreign bases; ultimatums to foreign countries to do what American Presidents demand; resources confiscated from American taxpayers and given to brutal foreign dictators to oppress their subjects. I've yet to see any concessions or retreats, but I have seen a lot of innocent people die.
12. "We serve the cause of liberty, and that is, always and everywhere, a cause worth serving."
Speaking of liberty, have you been in an American airport lately?
Changing the World
11. "We're changing the world. And the world will be better off. . . . there's an historic opportuni
When is this evil going to be wiped from the planet? Will it take gnome 3.0 to do this? But at that point they'll just call it
KNOME
(in loving memory of )MEEPT!!
Guess it's a slow news day
Yeah, except for the bombings in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, nothing special happened. After all, people die violently every day, so why bother? *yawn*