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“No, I did not and the reason I didn’t know is because I hadn’t visited with his replacement.”

- US President George W. Bush at today’s press conference answering a reporter’s question as to whether he knew he was going to ask Rumsfeld for his resignation when he stated last week that Rumsfeld was going to stay on board for the next two years.

Quick comment on my part: Let me see if I got this right: so last week Bush said he wasn’t going to kick Rumsfeld out. Bush tells us today he wasn’t planning on doing it because he didn’t get the chance to visit his replacement. Yet Bush stated that didn’t know last week that he was going to hand Rumsfeld his walking papers. But there was a replacement, he said it himself. How can you not know that you’re going to fire someone if there’s a replacement in the wings?

(Video at Crooks and Liars)

(Via Wonkette)

“Its inevitable failure means Canada will have no strategy to deal with the No. 1 threat to Canadians and this is unacceptable.”

- NDP leader Jack Layton on the lame-duckness of the Conservative government’s Clean Air Act, against which he is allegedly ready to pass a no confidence motion if there aren’t serious changes made to improve our environment.

“I mean, you don’t need an automatic weapon to go hunting. It’s even illegal. So why should it be on the streets? Why should it be in your house? It doesn’t make sense. There should be much stricter laws.”

- Nelson De Sousa, father of Anastasia De Sousa who was killed in the Dawson College shooting last September, getting ready to go to Ottawa to campaign for tougher gun laws.

“I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to…you know, that there’s a level of violence that they tolerate.”

- US President George W. Bush commenting on the “courage” of the Iraqi people after reports suggest that 655,000 Iraqis have died since the start of Iraq war.

Quick comment on my part: regardless of the fact the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s report is accurate or not, tens of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives in this war.  Only someone bolted down in an ivory tower with an ocean separating him from the violence would even consider this situation tolerable.

“[Canadians] want a Canada that reflects their values and interests, and that punches above its weight.”

- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Calgary, Alberta, commenting on what kind of role Canadians want for their country to have in the future.

Quick comment on my part: funny, my values and interests don’t involve punching in any way, nor do they involve sending men and women to die to help us do so.  He doesn’t speak for me, nor does he speak for 63.7% of the country.

“I was disgusted by the revelations and disappointed that he would violate the trust of the citizens that placed him in office.”

- President Bush speaking in the third person on Congressman Mark Foley’s unfolding sex scandal.
Quick, someone get the President a dictionary turned to the entry for Irony.

“Obviously these schools are not like most public schools that would have some type of security.”

- Jack Lewis of the Pennsylvania State Police, commenting on the shooting at a small Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.

Quick comment on my part: am I the only person who’s bothered by the fact that a school without any security is considered as peculiar?

“It smells of sulfur still today.”

- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, addressing the United Nations, after referring to George W. Bush as the devil.

“In many of the European countries, as you know, the governments are much more left wing than our own, and it’s not very hard to find sympathizers to such causes.”

- Canadian Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn in reaction to the involvement of animal rights groups in a possible European ban of products derived from seal hunts off the east coast of Canada.