Two years after he quit, Nixon told a TV journalist that "if the president does it, it can't be illegal."

I don't know why people think that the Mafia is merciless and badder than you know -- and yet they don't assume that the President of the United States is in a position of such power, and that of course he's going to use the same fucking tools as the Mafia.

Only an administration supremely confident of the media's docility would have risked staging an event like that, leaving Bush open to ridicule from any media outlet that saw its role as more than simply being a chronicler of Tales of Fearless Leaders...
"Deception of the citizens by those in power is critical," explains Shadia Drury, a University of Calgary political scientist and author of Leo Strauss And The American Right.
Fox News "host" Bill O'Reilly last February interviewed an anti-war activist whose father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. .... Wrong. O'Reilly never let up his verbal abuse during the interview, and afterwards promptly told the activist to "Get out of my studio before I tear you to f----ing pieces."

Prime Minister John Howard says he has *no recollection* of being told of Peter Hollingworth's mishandling of child sex allegations prior to appointing him to the office of governor-general.
"Once you start dividing it and pro rataing according to the number of years they've served, you are sort of arguing over a pinhead in a way," he said.

Referring to the lack of WMD found in Iraq, he said: "There has been a lot of misunderstanding as to exactly what it was we expected to find and when we expected to find it." He continued: "The most fundamental, most important thing that was not destroyed [by international weapons inspectors] was the intellectual capacity in Iraq to recreate systems of weapons of mass destruction." ... Just about any country in the world has the 'intellectual capacity' to begin a program of creating weapons of mass destruction.

Dr. Durakovic said:"In Afghanistan there were no oil fires, no pesticides, nobody had been vaccinated - all explanations suggested for the Gulf veterans' condition. But people had exactly the same symptoms. I'm certainly not saying Afghanistan was a vast experiment with new uranium weapons. But use your common sense."

He claims the "blood of Muslims is expensive and valuable" and warns that Western terrorists must understand how painful and hurtful it is to lose a mother, a husband, children or family members.

Delivering a lecture in Parliament House in Canberra, Dr Gunaratna says Osama Bin Laden targeted Australia because it helped East Timor get independence from Indonesia.

Donald Rehkopf, co-chair of the military committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, called the planned military commissions "an embarrassment to democracy."

"Senior Iraqi officers who commanded troops crucial to the defence of key Iraqi cities were bribed not to fight by American special forces, the US general in charge of the war has confirmed. " imagine if microsoft did this!

Thomas Jefferson: "I tremble for my nation when I reflect that God is just"

HST: The press today is like the rest of the country. Maybe you need a war. Wars tend to bring out out the best in them. War was everywhere you looked in the sixties, extending into the seventies. Now there are no wars to fight.