For 100 points and a shot at the bonus round, who said the following....?

[kurtyboy]

"We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."

Reply with your best guess!

[Maple]

1. George I

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[kurtyboy]

10. Jeez, that didn't take along!

It was indeed George Herbert Walker Bush, in his (apologetic) 1998 book, "A World Transformed."

Bush I was explaining why he chose not to continue the march into Baghdad. Perhaps he had something there--he sure looks like a genius compared to the boy-king (albeit a criminal genius).

Now for the bonus round! Who said this?

"{Occupying Baghdad comes at an} unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships."

Let's see who can figure this one out....

[Maple]

11. Second quote Colin Powell

1992 Foreign Affairs essay

[kurtyboy]

12. Maple, you are the WINNER tonight.

Colin Powell did indeed pen those words in a 1992 Foreign Affairs essay.

Do you figure he's just a little co-opted at this point?

[Maple]

14. OOoooh wadooIwin,wadooIwin?

Co-opted huh?

Well that's not quite what I'd call it, but I'll stay polite. LOL

[kurtyboy]

16. That's Okay, Harry Belafonte said for all of us....

N/T

[Zan_of_Texas]

13. you told the answer too quick.

I got it too.

But, don't know the bonus round one.

[Boom_cha]

2. Since Bush pere is already taken

I'll say Cheney. I vaguely remember a quote of his to that effect

[Frances]

3. I think Cheney wanted to go into Iraq

and Bush1 said no. Bush1 is the author of the quote I think.

[Boom_cha]

5. He would have been my first choice as well

but he was already spoken for

[NYC]

4. I think it was Bush, Sr. If not, a member of his administration.

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[cherryperry]

6. Saddam Hussein?

or Bush the Elder
or General Schwartzkopf

[wtmusic]

7. Colin Powell n/t

x

[Catch22Dem]

8. Poppy

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/LEO303A.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Yep it was Poppy in his book!

[Zan_of_Texas]

15. Okay, how about another round?

Hope you don't mind -- our quiz kids are so fast they're out of questions!

Who said this:

"I am not going to engage in discussions, nor will I submit to roving questions of what goes on in the most intimate parts of my private life or the sanctity of the bedroom. These are the most intimate parts of my privacy, and they will remain just that, private.”

[Archae]

19. Ken Starr?

Sounds like the prevert.

[Zan_of_Texas]

21. BZZZT.

Nice guess though.

[Archae]

25. Newt Gingrich?

Sounds like the fucking hypocrite (literally,) as well.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Pueeze I watched that one LIVE

Clarence Thomas

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

22. OK who said this?

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Answer

Clarence Thomas greeting the other justices this morning!

[caledesi]

17. G. W. Bush....easy,

[Zan_of_Texas]

18. BZZZZT. Next contestant?

Buzzer goes off. If that was an answer to 15., you need to try again.

[Zan_of_Texas]

24. We Have A Winner

For the following quote:

"I am not going to engage in discussions, nor will I submit to roving questions of what goes on in the most intimate parts of my private life or the sanctity of the bedroom. These are the most intimate parts of my privacy, and they will remain just that, private."

These were the words of a man trying to get a job. He refused to discuss his private life. He asserted it was, well, private. Nobody's business.

He was appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, trying to be confirmed to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas was the guy -- NothingShocksMeAnyMore is the winner! Congratulations!

Just a few weeks ago, when writing a minority decision in Lawerence and Garner v. Texas, Justice (a/k/a Just-Us) Clarence Thomas denied that there was anything he could do judicially about the little problem of police going into a bedroom and hauling off the two men to jail, for engaging in state-prohibited sex.

Thomas, when put in the role of protecting others' privacy, wrote in his decision in Lawrence:

"I recognize that as a member of this Court I am not empowered to help petitioners and others similarly situated. ...(I) can find (neither in the Bill of Rights nor any other part of the Constitution a) general right of privacy."

[Rhiannon12866]

23. George Bush Sr.! I have quoted him often!

This was in 1996, on the fifth anniversary of the Gulf War when he was explaining the reason that he didn't take Saddam out and why it would be folly to do so. He should have passed on this sage advice to his warmongering son!:grr: