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October, 2008: "What crisis?" (Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, implying that the financial crisis in the USA would not affect Brazil, only to reverse course a few days later with a live address to the Brazilian nation about the devastating effects of the crisis) September, 2008: "If I were president today I would fire him" (John McCain, trying to blame others for the financial crisis but forgetting that it was his good friend Phil Gramm, now his closest economic adviser, who aggressively pushed legislation through Congress to free the hands of the speculators) Also: "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the -- it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track." (Vicepresidential candidate Sarah Palin explaining why she supports the Wall Street bail-out plan)(or whatever she thought she was explaining) Also: "The United Nations is... needed more urgently than ever" (USA president George W Bush, after undermining the United Nations for eight years) August, 2008: "Let me be very clear on this" (International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, being very obscure about what kind of freedom, if any, will the media, the athletes and the spectators have during the Olympic Games in mainland China) July, 2008: "The financial system is basically sound" (George W Bush, presiding over the biggest financial crisis in recent history). Also: "The site is maintained by volunteers, who are not associated with any government officials" (www.anti-cnn.com, a website sponsored and controlled by the Chinese government to distribute anti-Western propaganda). June, 2008: "Only our people will decide and nobody else" (Robert Mugabe, having decided that he will win the presidential election). "The fundamentals of our economy are very strong" (John McCain, presidential candidate, in the middle of the worst economic depression since the 1970s). Also: "The price of oil is not a crisis" (Samuel Bodman, energy secretary of the USA) May, 2008: "Many believe all we need to do to end the nuclear programs of hostile governments is have our president talk with their leaders, as if we haven't tried talking to these governments repeatedly over the past two decades." (John McCain, USA candidate to president, forgetting that the USA has always refused any talk with the Iranian government) April, 2008: "Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem" (Hu Jingtao, president of mainland China) March, 2008: "A strong dollar is in America's interest" (Henry Paulson, USA minister of finance, while the dollar is collapsing worldwide) February, 2008: "We apologize that the site you are attempting to visit has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates" (The government of the United Arab Emirates, prohibiting to visit virtually any website that discusses Islamic history) Also: "There has been no attempt to invite an equal number of Palestinian writers" (Tariq Ali, a British Muslim writer, about complaining about the Israeli writers invited to the Paris book fair, forgetting there are no Palestinian, or, for that matter, Arab writers of equal merit, due not to Western prejudice but to failed Arab educational systems) January, 2008: "Fidel Castro has incredible lucidity" (Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, talking of a man who was always famous for rambling speeches even when he was young) Also Societe Generale, for not realizing that one of its employees lost five billion euros in stock trades. December, 2007: "Economic fundamentals remain strong" (George W Bush, while the USA economy plunges into a recession) November, 2007: "Fascists are not human." (Hugo Chavez, fascist president of Venezuela, talking of the King of Spain who is widely considered having defeated fascism in Spain in 1978) "Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office" Mike Huckabee, a USA presidential candidate who supports the death penalty, when asked what would Jesus do about the death penalty) October, 2007: "The Constitution guarantees life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (Bill O'Reilly, best-selling right-wing author of "Kids Are American Too", confusing the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence) September, 2007: "Taiwan, China" (The Venice Film Festival of Italy, crediting Ang Lee's Taiwanese film as a film from a province of China, as instructed by the totalitarian regime of mainland China) August, 2007: "Texans are doing just fine governing Texas" (Rich Perry, governor of Texas, presiding over a failed state that competes with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia for the record number of executions) "The USA is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East" (Al Jazeera, the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East) Also: "Sorry, the webpage you browsed has been deleted" (Website of the Chinese Embassy in New York, if you try to send them a complaint) July, 2007: "Senators should not get a salary raise until the minimum wage is raised" (Hillary Clinton, on the eve of an already scheduled minimum-wage increase) June, 2007: "China will support democratic development" (Chinese premier Hu Jintao while visiting Hong Kong and forbidding democratic elections) May, 2007: "A conspiracy by the UK government to turn Britons against Muslims" (Al Jazeera's view of the foiled terrorist attacks in Britain) April, 2007: "The vast majority of gun owners are law abiding" (Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson, as if the "vast minority" of those who are not law abiding did not kill more USA citizens than Al Qaeda) "Our priority has always been saving human lives" (Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, justifying the exchange of Taliban prisoners for Italian hostages that resulted in the Taliban killing the other non-Italian hostage, and the millions of dollars of ransom paid to the Taliban that the Taliban used to buy weapons that are likely to kill many human lives) March, 2007: "Progress is being made in Iraq" (USA senator John McCain, while hundreds of Iraqi civilians are killed every day) Also: "There is no evidence that foreign women were coerced by the Japanese army to become sex slaves during World War II." (Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe) February, 2007: "I have no problem with Iran having one or two nuclear bombs" (French president Jacques Chirac) January, 2007: "A horrific chapter has been closed" (George W Bush, commenting on the grotesque execution of Saddam Hussein that began a new horrific chapter of Sunni insurgence) December, 2006: "Al Qaeda is mainly Shiite" (Silvestre Reyes, the Democratic Party's choice for head of the Foreign Intelligence Committee) November, 2006: "Al Qaeda is on the run" (USA president George W Bush, while Al Qaeda spreads in Pakistan) October, 2006: "We cannot allow bloodshed in this region" (Russian president Putin criticizing Georgia's attitude towards its rebellious provinces after Russia destroyed most of its rebellious province Chechnya for the same reason) September, 2006: "Pope is building religion on hatred" (Indonesian Muslims demonstrating against the Pope, one more instance of Muslims who are building religion on hatred) Also: "Efforts to link Islam and terrorism should be clearly opposed" (Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, while Islamic terrorists is spreading all over the world) August, 2006: "Iran plays a stabilizing role in the Middle East" (Philippe Douste-Blazy, France's foreign minister) Also: "Hezbollah suffered a defeat" (George W Bush, while Hezbollah is hailed as the winner all over the Middle East) July, 2006: "France is a country of Negroes, Muslims and Communists" (Roberto Calderoli, a leader of one of Italy's right-wing parties) Also: "Our religion prevails from Spain to Iraq" (Al-Zawahiri of Al Qaeda, forgetting that Spain has been Christian for 500 years) June, 2006: "Some posting to this section are moderated by Aljazeera.com." (Al Jazeera, that routinely censors any reader's comment against Al Jazeera - try it by yourself) Also: "This is not an amnesty" (George Bush, while granting an amnesty to millions of illegal aliens) May, 2006: "Under the pretext of the existence of WMDs" (Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accusing Bush of lying about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destructions when in fact Iran always accused Saddam of having them) April, 2006: "Fair and balanced" (Bill O'Reilly, the most unfair and unbalanced tv host in the USA) March, 2006: "Thank God" (USA president George W Bush, responding to the news of the release of USA hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq) February, 2006: "They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not... death to them and to their newspapers" (A Muslim protester in Afghanistan who was trying to explain to the BBC that Islam means peace) January, 2006: "Stop climate change" (Greenpeace and assorted environmentalist, forgetting that climate change has been around for billions of years) Also: "This land belongs to me and you'd better leave it alone" (USA tele-evangelist Pat Robertson delivering to the world God's opinion about the Gaza strip) December, 2005: "Nigeria does not need lessons in democracy from abroad" (Nigerian presidential spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode) November, 2005: "Al- Jazeera is in the foremost of democracy in the Arab world" (Wadah Khanfar, head of Al Jazeera, the mouthpiece of Arab dictators and Islamic terrorists) Also: "The tragedies that happened in Jordan have happened in many parts of the world, from Asia to Georgia to all Muslim Arab countries to Europe and America," (King Abdullah of Jordan, forgetting to mention the main target of terrorism, i.e. Israel) October, 2005: "Ahmadinejad did not have any intention to engage in a conflict" (The Iranian ambassador, referring to Iran's president call for the destruction of Israel) September, 2005: "There is simply no fat left to cut from the federal budget" (Republican leader Tom DeLay, after Congress approves the largest pork-barrel spending in the history of the world) Also: "Zero tolerance of people breaking the law" (USA president Bush, forgetting that his pro-gun laws give criminals infinite tolerance in situations like the New Orleans evacuation) August, 2005: "Our special forces should take him out" (USA fundamentalist Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of democratically-elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, proving to the world that Christian fundamentalists are no less stupid than Islamic fundamentalists) July, 2005: "The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease" (France's president Jacques Chirac, insulting Britain at a meeting from Germany and Russia, and forgetting that he is the man who destroyed French agriculture) June, 2005: "We would not tolerate a nuclear program in North Korea" (South Korea's defense minister Yoon Kwang Ung, while South Korea is doing precisely that: tolerating anything North Korea does) Also: "Britain's behaviour is pathetic" (French president Jacques Chirac, while begging the booming economy of Britain to help financially the collapsing economy of France) Also: "This item contains forbidden speech" (Microsoft's error message when someone tries to write the word "democracy" on its Chinese blog) May, 2005: "Islam is a positive, not a negative force" (Malaysian dictator Mahathir Mohamad, while Islamic fundamentalists are terrorizing all countries in the world) Also " Islam dictates that the head of the nation must be a man" (Kuwaiti politician Waleed al-Tabtabae, head of Parliament's human rights committee ). April, 2005: "Japan has to face up to history" (premier Wen Jiabao of Beijing, a regime that has never faced up to its history of massacres and invasions in Tibet, Turkestan, Mongolia, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and has officially threatened to invade the peaceful and democratic country of Taiwan). Also "These people haven't been indicted for anything, they haven't been convicted of anything (Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, talking of the terrorists on the terrorist watchlist, who, in his opinion, should be allowed to purchase guns in the USA). Also "Judges must answer for their behavior" (Republican leader Tom DeLay, involved in all sorts of scandals, threatening the judges who express opinions different from his) March, 2005: "1.5 million people demonstrated for Syria in Beirut" (Al Jazeera, forgetting that the entire population of Lebanon is only 3 million, including children and elderly people) Also: "Thousands of Lebanese protestors marched outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut, denouncing the U.S. interference in Lebanon" (Al Jazeera, neglecting two decades of Syrian intereference in Lebanon) February, 2005: "Some Europeans joined the fight to liberate Iraq, while others did not" (Bush in Europe, while forgiving Chirac of France who has always sided with the USA's enemies) Also: "We need to protect our... freedom and democracy" (North Korea's foreign minister) Also: "History will surely judge us not by our old disagreements, but by our new achievements" (Condy Rice, in her speech to the French nation, mainly famous for disagreeing with the USA) January, 2005: "freedom" (George W Bush, in his inauguration speech, using repeatedly the words "free" and "freedom" after curtaling the freedom of USA citizens with "anti-terrorism" laws) December, 2004: "Putin is a convinced democrat" (German chancellor Schroeder, after Putin swept to power in rigged elections and supported the rigged elections in Ukraine) Also: "Relations between France and China will serve the world" (French president Jacques Chirac, proposing to sell advanced weapons to China's dictators). Also: "May the Holy Land, dear to the faithful of the three great monotheistic religions, be able to see times of prosperity and peaceful co-existence" (Pope John Paul II during the Christmas Mass, forgetting to mention that it has been precisely the three "great" totalitarian (or monotheistic) religions that have been the biggest enemies of peace November, 2004: "Every nation is capable of fighting corruption" (George W Bush, preaching at the APEC meeting in Chile, after confirming Dick Cheney as his vice-president) Also, Al Jazeera, for this sentence: "Israeli officials have strongly rejected the accusations, yet failed to provide an evidence that foils the accusations" referring to the fact that Israel has been accused of poisoning Arafat but failed to prove it: how is one (for example, me) supposed to prove that s/he did not poison someone? October, 2004: "The best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me" (George W Bush, a man who dodged the draft). Also: Piero Scaruffi, editor of this website, for having believed that Saddan Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction. September, 2004: "Syrian troops are in the country at Lebanon's request" (Mohammed Issa, member of Lebanon's government installed by Syrian occupation forces) August, 2004: "For the next 25 to 50 years, the oil available to the market is for all intents and purposes infinite" (MIT economist Mortis Adelman) July, 2004: "The government of Sudan will bring humanity out of darkness to the light of Islam" (Sudanese president Omar Bashir commenting on the massacre of non-Arabs in Sudan's Darfur region) June, 2004: "A date must be set for the U.S. troops to depart" (French president Jacques Chirac, showing how much power he would give to any future Iraqi government to decide for itself). May, 2004: "The USA is a source of instability in the Middle East" (president Bashar Assad of Syria, as if there ever was stability in the Middle East) April, 2004: "My plan is tough on the Palestinians, a mortal blow" (Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, for those who still believed he is a man of peace) March, 2004: "There was no terrorism in Iraq before the war" (French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, forgetting that Saddam Hussein terrorized Iraq for 35 years). Also: "Made in Burma" (The Bush/Cheney campaign, selling T-shirts made in a country whose products have been banned in the USA for human-rights violation by its brutal regime) February, 2004: "A review of our spending commitments is necessary" (Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggesting that the USA cuts spending for Medicare to fix the budget deficit, instead of suggesting a reduction in health-care costs that would achieve the same result without hurting elderly citizens) January, 2004: "This is not an amnesty" (George Bush, while granting an amnesty to millions of illegal aliens) Also: "An immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee" (George Bush, while describing new legislation that will allow American companies to cut salaries of American workers and replace them with foreign workers if they refuse). December, 2003: "I feel pity for this man [Saddam Hussein] being treated like a cow [by the USA]" (cardinal Renato Martino, spokesman for a Church that never felt any pity for the hundreds of thousands of people massacred by Saddam Hussein over the last 25 years) Novembre, 2003: "We do not make the news - we report it" (Ibrahim Hilal, chief news editor of Al Jazeera, the tv network that reported the USA had dropped a nuclear bomb on Baghdad, that the USA had not entered Baghdad, that the USA was attacking the holiest mosque in Iraq, that 170thousand items were looted from the Baghdad Museum, etc). October, 2003: "Jews control the world and recruit others to fight and die for them" (Malaysian dictator Mahathir Mohammed, while Arabs control the world through oil and Muslims worldwide recruit fighters to die for them). Also, "Power should return to the Iraqi people" (German chancellor Schroeder, as if the Iraqi people had ever had any power under Saddam Hussein's regime). Also: "Western values are corrupt, unjust and anti-Islamic (the tyrants of Syria, Libya, Sudan and Iran, four very corrupt, unjust and un-Islamic regimes, at the Islamic Conference) September, 2003: "The Israeli people will pay a dear price for this crime" (Sheikh Yassin, spiritual leader of Hamas, who has always claimed he has nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of Hamas' military wing) Also, "Mussolini never killed anyone" (Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, forgetting the invasions of Ethiopia, Greece, etc) August, 2003: "The Iraqi Council must pave the way for a legitimate government" (Arab League's secretary-general Amr Moussa, speaking on behalf of Arab dictators who have never been legitimate). July, 2003: "Africa needs food and medicine, not lessons in democracy" (Muammar al-Qaddafi, one of the Arab dictators who has caused poverty and starvation in Africa). June, 2003: "There are no civil liberties that are more important than the right to live in freedom" (John Ashcroft, after incarcerating dozens of innocent Arab-American citizens). Also: "I am the federal government" (Tom DeLay, when reproached for smoking in a government building) May, 2003: "Islam is Peace" (USA president George W Bush, while Islamic fundamentalists are waging wars in four continents and in dozen of countries, from the USA to Russia to China to Israel to India to Philippines to Nigeria to Sudan to Indonesia to...). April, 2003: "Iraq's future must be decided by the United Nations alone" (France's president Chirac, acting one more time as Emperor of the World and proving one more time how much interest he has in the opinion of the Iraqi people). Also: "The images are made in Hollywood" (Iraqi minister of information Mohammed Said Sahhaf, commenting on the American marines swarming through Baghdad). March, 2003: "The European Union is wrong" on Iraq (Tom DeLay, leader of the US Republican Party, confusing France with the European Union, and forgetting that Britain, Spain and Italy, all in favor of war, are also part of the European Union). Also: "There is still time to negotiate, there is still time for peace" (Pope John Paul II, who for 25 years tolerated that thousands of people were killed by Saddam, and forgetting that there never was peace in Iraq under Saddam). February, 2003: "Inspections can be effective" (French president Jacques Chirac, after spending 12 years derailing the United Nations efforts to send inspectors to Iraq). Also: "They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet" (Jacques Chirac threatening the European countries that sided with the USA, in a clear display of his concept of democracy) January, 2003: "We have shown the French-German motor" (French president Jacques Chirac, hailing the French-German axis at a time when both economies are sinking to third-world levels) December, 2002: "A distorted picture has been painted of this country" (German chancellor Schroeder commenting on the worst economic and employment data in the history of modern Germany) November, 2002: "China's constitution has guaranteed the citizens' democracy" (Hu Jintao, after being appointed leader of China by the Congress of the Communist Party, that did not consult a single Chinese citizen) Also: "Turkey's entry in the European Union would be the end of Europe" (Valery Giscard d'Estaing, a former French president in charge of drafting the European constitution, meaning that it would end French predominance in Europe) October, 2002: "Only this action firmly guards us against temptations of adventure" (Jacques Chirac, president of France, while opposing a military intervention in Iraq aimed at stopping Saddam's temptations of adventure) September, 2002: "There are al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq" (George W Bush, a few weeks after noting that Al Qaeda terrorists operate from "dozens" of countries, including most Arab countries, western Europe and the USA itself) August, 2002: "What you plant, you harvest" (a neighbor of Mrs Khouli, whose two daughters were executed by Palestinian gunmen for collaborating with Israel, not realizing that what he is planting by justifying the execution with no trial of two powerless women is the seed of dictatorship). Also "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction" (Dick Cheney, USA vicepresident) July 2002: "20 years ago this would not have happened" (An anonymous official of the Saudi government, about the girls who were left burning alive in a school because they were not wearing the veil: he was referring to the fact that 20 years ago there were NO schools for girls in Saudi Arabia) June 2002: "Nobody is above the law" (George W Bush, while a chain of scandals unveils widespread misconduct by America's top managers without a single manager spending a single day in jail or having to return a single penny) May 2002: "Al Jazeera is biased towards Israel" (Bahrain's Information minister Nabil al-Hamr, while banning the Arab station Al Jazeera for letting Israeli officials speak on an Arab television) April 2002: "Sharon is a man of peace" (George W Bush, a few days before Sharon ordered the invasion of Palestine) March 2002: "I have heard your voices" (Tung Chee-hwa, thanking the people of Hong Kong for re-electing him: he was the only candidate allowed by China to run in the elections) February 2002: "Iran, Iraq and North Korea constitute an axis of evil" (George W Bush, US president, while America is attacked by terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and none at all from Iran, Iraq or North Korea) January 2002: "The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is" (Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, against basing a new food agency in Finland) December 2001: "We will fight on our own" (Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister of India, responding to Islamic terrorism caused by India's occupation of Kashmir) November 2001: "Best experienced using Microsoft Internet Explorer" (the only words written in English on the website of the Arab network aljazeera.net) October 2001: "We are winning this war" (the Taliban embassador in Pakistan while the US is bombing the hell out of Afghanistan) September 2001: "This is a crusade" (George W Bush, US president, while trying to prove that this is not a war against Islam) August 2001: "Compassion is no substitute for justice" (Rush Limbaugh, the least compassionate of radio hosts, commenting on the death penalty that killed hundreds of innocents while sending free hundreds of rich people) July 2001: "Americans have little to fear from terrorism" (Larry Johnson, political commentator and former CIA agent, writing about "The Declining Terrorist Threat" while terrorists were about to attack America) June 2001: "The US should build a new power plant every week for the next 20 years" (Dick Cheney, US vice president, trying to take advantage of the energy crisis to boost his pro-oil policies) May 2001: "I was the governor of a state that had a death penalty and, as far as I was concerned, I reviewed every case and I was confident that every person that had been put to death received full rights and was guilty of the crime charged. " (George W Bush, a few months before hundreds of death-row inmnates were proven innocent by DNA testing) April 2001: March 2001: "I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel" (Rupert Murdoch, about his channel tv that is the most biased channel in the USA) February 2001: January 2001: December 2000: "Fair and balanced" (Fox News, the most biased news channel in the USA) November 2000: October 2000: "Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream." (Rush Limbaugh) September 2000: "The media are not disposed toward any Republican president" (Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, a good example of how the mainstream media are not disposed towards any Democratic president) February 2000: "The stronger the state the freer the individual" (Vladimir Putin, president of Russia) December 1999: "Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth" (Rush Limbaugh, a man whose historical perspective begins with the day of his birth) September 1999: "Dow 36,000" (the title of a book by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett that predicts the Dow Jones will hit 36,000 by 2005, published a few months before the biggest stock market crash of all times) February 1998: "The goal of our crusade is to expel America's army from the lands of Islam" (Osama bin Laden, who would soon cause the USA to invade the lands of Afghanistan and Iraq, and station troops all over the Islamic world) |