Quotes of note:
"President Bush wants to change the Department of Defense back into a War Department.... Who is this guy, Napoleon?"
-- Chris Matthews, SFGate.com, June 9, 2002
"He's as purposeful as a wind-up toy boat with a bent rudder doing circular putt-putts in the bathtub."
-- Nicholas von Hoffman on George W. Bush, New York Observer
"
did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war
on terrorism.... His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere.... This guy is a joke...sleazy and contemptible."
-- patriot and soldier, US Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler
"This Bush administration believes that it is not accountable to the American people, and that it is above scrutiny if not the law. It has a 'Father Knows Best'(and let's hope the father is not Bush Sr.) view of government. And, for political reasons, not the least of which deals with the congressional elections this fall -- where Republicans hope to re-capture control of the Senate and retain control of the House -- Bush and his colleagues do not want the full truth to be known."
-- the usually-insane Larry Klayman, showing unusual acuity and intelligence, May 24, 2002
"On cue, Vice-president Cheney entered stage right with his now familiar bluster, insisting upon secrecy and insinuating that to doubt George W. Bush is to doubt America. Well, it's not going to play this time."
-- Gene Lyons, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 22, 2002
"We have a real problem with ... these are real screw-ups, real foul-ups... Are they
being covered up by these generalized warnings?"
-- Chris Matthews, Hardball, May 21, 2002
"I think it's shameful that they didn't warn the American people. It appears the government has placed the financial interests of the airline industry above the survival of the citizens"
-- Steven Push, husband of murdered passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, on CNN, May 16, 2002 (thanks to mediawhoresonline.com)
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