Working stiffs, as always
"Most rich people are able to avoid taxes, and if you can't raise enough money from taxing the rich, guess who pays the taxes?" — Emperor George Bush II, August 11, defending his tax policy.
Land of opportunity
"The wealthiest 20 percent of households in 1973 accounted for 44 percent of total US income, according to the Census Bureau. Their share jumped to 50 percent in 2002, while everyone else's fell. For the bottom fifth, the share dropped from 4.2 percent to 3.5 percent." — Associated Press, August 17.
Got that winning spirit
"Members of the Iraqi Olympic soccer team branded US President George Bush a 'criminal' and called for American troops to pull out of the war-torn country. Speaking after winning their group stage at the games in Greece, one player said he would take up arms against US troops in his country." — Glasgow Scotsman, August 20.
The expletives?
"The players are not very sophisticated politically... It is possible something was lost in translation." — Mark Clark, the former British Army officer who now acts as the Iraqi soccer team's manager, commenting on the team's anti-Bush remarks.
Helps them put up a convincing defence
"It's very depressing because we don't want an intimidated judiciary." — Pauline Popp-Madsen, described as "a justice adviser from Denmark", quoted in an August 27 London Daily Telegraph article reporting that in the southern Iraqi city of Basra "defendants [are] coming to court armed with rifles and grenade launchers and threatening to kill judges".
By gads, that's intolerable!
"The British diplomatic mission in Basra has been under siege for three weeks, suffering almost daily mortar attacks... The whisky has run out in the British office but there is enough food for almost three weeks and an atmosphere of stoicism prevails." — London Daily Telegraph, August 27.
From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, September 1, 2004.
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