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July 31, 2006

Quotes of the Day

On Beirut...

We're not helping one bit, risking the lives of American Marines serving over there, trying to keep peace, when they've got a bunch of jackasses who want to kill each other. I'd get out of there and let them shoot. - Senator Bary Goldwater

...and the Marines...
You would think that over a period of 23 years that the United States military, the memory of the barracks bombing would have faded. It hasn't.

When Secretary Rice talks about perhaps a peacekeeping force, the first question in a U.S. officer's mind is, does that mean us? No one in the military wants a replay of 1983.
-MARK PERRY


...in 1983.

From an OUTSTANDING CNN Presents: "Marine Barracks Bombing". (If you can't find it re-scheduled, the transcript's here. )

As soon as we suffer casualties, we will cut and run.
We are a paper tiger.
-ADMIRAL JAMES LYONS, U.S. NAVY (RET.)

Oh yeah, we do. And the whole Islamic world knows it. They're counting on it.

Posted by tree hugging sister at July 31, 2006 02:24 PM