Mikaela cheers:
Quote of the week for me so far courtesy Mark Mazzetti writing in the New York Times, quoting a Bush administration official who works on Pakistan issues:
"When you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem; but when you owe the bank $100 million, the bank has a problem."Kinda the same boat as all the countries that the U.S. owes money to: U.S.S. Sayonara sailing up shit creek.
And the runner-up, on torture, from Keith Olbermann:
"Study after study for generation after generation has confirmed that torture gets people to talk, torture gets people to plead, torture gets people to break, but torture does not get them to tell the truth.
Of course, Mr. Bush, this isn't a problem if you don't care if the terrorist plots they tell you about are the truth or just something to stop the tormentors from drowning them.
If, say, a president simply needed a constant supply of terrorist threats to keep a country scared."
As Orwell knew only too well when he wrote 1984 in 1948.
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