Answers to Quote Quiz:
1. "Achieving our goals will require sacrifice and time, but we will prevail. Make no mistake about that."
George H.W. Bush (in announcing the commencement of Gulf War I) (1991)
2. "Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
Colin Powell (2003)
3. "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Herman Goering, 1946, Nuremberg trials
4. "Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung."
Colin Powell (1991, after the Gulf War)
5. "Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons."
Bill Clinton, Dec. 16, 1998 (in speech announcing why he sent cruise missiles into Iraq)
6. "America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate."
Dubya, Sept. 20, 2001 |
