6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #24I went through the Pentegon 10 days after 9/11. . . . and an officer from the Joint Staff called me into his office and said, "I want you to know" he said, "sir, we're going to attack Iraq." and I said, "Why?" He said, "We don't know." I said, "Well, did they tie Saddam to 9/11?" He said, "No." He said, "But, I guess they don't know what to do about terrorism, but they can attack states and they want to look strong, and so, I guess they think if they take down a state it will intimidate the terrorists and, you know it's like that old saying" he said, "if the only tool you have is a hammer than every problem has to be a nail." - General Wesley Clark (retired), at the Commonwealth Club of California (October 3, 2007)
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4/5/2018 0 Comments Quote #17If we journalists, including myself, had right from the get-go, from the opening pop, had started asking the kind of tough, digging, aggressive questions we should have been asking and doing our reporting, rather than just being kind of stenographers: go to a briefing, have an official say something, print it in the paper next day. If we had done our job, I do think a strong argument can be made that, perhaps, we would not have gone to war. - Dan Rather, CBS news anchor 1981-2005, from the documentary film, "The War You Don't See" (2010)
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