Ted Koppel on The Daily Show:
You remember the joke — it wasn’t that much of a joke — before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, we used to say in Washington, “We know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. We still have the receipts.”
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That was back in the 1980s. When you think about it, the chemical weapons that were used by the Iraqis against the Iranians came from components that were sold to them by the British, the French, the Germans and the United States.
On George W. Bush’s trip to Vietnam:
It’s a sign of the times. Thirty-five years ago he joined the Texas Air National Guard to stay out of Vietnam, and now he’s going to Vietnam to stay out of Washington.
With globalization transforming so much of the world, I got curious. Could Bush be staying at this hotel during his stay in Hanoi?
Gee. When John McCain talks about the “Hanoi Hilton,” it doesn’t sound nearly as nice.
Spink Nogales | 16-Nov-06 at 9:34 pm | Permalink
There is a class system that exists in every part of the world. The innovation of the Industrial Revolution was the creation of the American Middle Class. In our lifetimes we have never known a time when there was no middle class and therefor, no doubts about attaining the great American Dream. That era now seems to be coming to an end.