Quotes of the Day
Email“This country is finished.” — Jamil Jaber, 45, Iraqi man whose five-room house behind the Foreign Ministry was flattened by one of several explosions across Iraq today, which have killed at least 75 people and wounded more than 400 more
“All the organizing and traveling and talking and shouting has left the president’s plans about where they were back when Brett Favre was retired for only the second time.” — Rick Klein, ABC News
“Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.” — Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny, The New York Times
“On what planet do you spend most of your time?” — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., responding to a constituent at a town-hall meeting who asked him why he was “supporting this Nazi policy” on health care
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The current wave of violence is largely sectarian…..one group of muslims against another, largely fueled by Iranian influences.
It will require severe government control to contain it, and the government in Iraq, simply isn’t that strong.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | August 19, 2009, 11:05 am 11:05 am