Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes,
by G.B. Trudeau, Oct. 1, 2008
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BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:
Doonesbury's creator, G. B. Trudeau, damns all of our leaders with their own words. In this thin volume, Trudeau collects up quotations used in his political comic strip over the years, and juxtaposes them to demonstrate the arrogance (or outright lies) of the Bush administration with regards to the Iraq War. The book is made less partisan by Trudeau's occasional portrayal of Democratic Congressional leaders as foolish complicity (or as willing pawns) of the Bush administration's war plans.
Trudeau neglects to bash one of the biggest perpetrators of the war lies: the mainstream press. Perhaps because he relies on the press for his livelihood, they are omitted from the pantheon of contradictions, and are not made to look like patsies alongside the politicians. We, the people, suffered from lies from both the politicians and the press about the Iraq War; and we, the taxpayers, will be paying to clean up after them for decades to come.
One reads this volume in hindsight from 2009 with a feeling of tragic inevitability -- that our elected leaders, of both parties, led us into a war on false pretenses because they refused to listen to dissenting voices. One can only hope that we remember this lesson the next time around, since it is sure to happen again.
-- Jesse Gordon, jesse@OnTheIssues.org, January 2009
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Homeland Security
Alberto Gonzales: 2002: Geneva Convention rendered quaint by war on terror.
Donald Rumsfeld: 2002: Requiring prisoners to stand 8-10 hours is not torture.
George W. Bush: Geneva Convention does not apply to Al Qaeda detainees.
Joseph Lieberman: Waterboarding is merely psychological; not real torture.
Rudy Giuliani: Whether waterboarding is torture depends on how it's done.
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War & Peace
Colin Powell: 2004: We don't have enough troops in Iraq.
Condoleezza Rice: We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Donald Rumsfeld: 2002: "Iraq has WMDs"; 2003: We never said Iraq had nukes.
Donald Rumsfeld: 2003: Several hundred thousand troops is far off the mark.
Donald Rumsfeld: 2003: We know where WMDs are, around Tikrit & Baghdad.
Donald Rumsfeld: 2004: Remaining violence is thugs & pockets of dead-enders.
Eric Shinseki: 2003: Iraq success requires several hundred thousand troops.
Eric Shinseki: 2003: Iraq success requires several hundred thousand troops.
George W. Bush: 2001: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush: May 2003: Combat operations are ended; mission accomplished.
George W. Bush: 2003: We will find WMDs; Saddam destroyed some & hid some.
George W. Bush: 2003: If they want to attack us in Iraq, bring 'em on.
Hillary Clinton: 2002: Saddam gave aid to Al Qaeda terrorsts.
Joe Biden: 2002: Waiting to be sure of Saddam danger could be too late.
John Edwards: 2002: Saddam has WMD and is trying to get nuclear weapons.
Nancy Pelosi: 2002: No question Saddam has WMD.
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The above quotations are from Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes,
by G.B. Trudeau, Oct. 1, 2008.
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- Worse Than Watergate, by John Dean
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward
- The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House, by David Frum
- The Price of Loyalty: The Education of Paul O'Neill, by Ron Suskind
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward
- A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush, by Ronald Kessler
- Lessons From a Father to His Son, by John Ashcroft
- Winning Modern Wars
- Hegemony or Survival, by Noam Chomsky
- 2006 State of the Union speech, plus response by Gov. Tim Kaine (D, VA)
- Bush At War, by Bob Woodward (2002)
- A Charge To Keep, by George W. Bush
- The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
- Against All Enemies:Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke
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