Quote of the week competition. August 14 - 20

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It's difficult for anything to compete with the blunt, truthful, committed eloquence of Cindy Sheehan, so I'll kick things off with a contrarian nomination.

My vote, simply because the quote packs so much meaning, from obvious, to whiny, to startling, into a few short phrases. From PNAC signatory, the guy who took out the Contract on America: Newt Gingrich

"Any effort to explain Iraq as 'We are on track and making progress' is nonsense," Newt Gingrich, a Republican who is a former House speaker, said. "The left has a constant drumbeat that this is Vietnam and a bottomless pit. The daily and weekly casualties leave people feeling that things aren't going well."

Republicans, Mr. Gingrich said, should make the case for "blood, sweat and toil" as part of a much larger war against "the irreconcilable wing of Islam."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/politics/18repubs.html?pagewanted=print