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Who do these statements sound like they came from?

"I will only answer reasonable questions."
"They mock me for how I speak. I speak better English than they do."
"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected."
"I blame Al-Jazeera."
"They think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win."
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
"We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted."
"Even those who live on another planet, if there are such people, would condemn them."
"They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing."
"Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly."
"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying."

Who said these? Answers here. (I don't remember where I got the URL from, but it was most likely twistedchick.

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I'm assuming it was the Shrub?

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doubleplus got it: the Iraqi Minister of Information during the invasion. But the whole point of the article I linked to is that similarity between what Bush says now and what the other fellow said then.

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You'd think so, but it was actually the Iraqi Minister of Information during the war, right?

On a somehat related note, somebody wrote a column today comparing Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech to Congress last week with quotes from President Bush's speeches (via the White House website):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55180-2004Sep27.html

Which is worse, the possibility that Allawi plagiarized Bush, or the possibility that Bush speechwriters drafted Allawi's speech?

I just assumed on hearing it that it was written by Bush's speechwriters. Honestly, I think the worst thing is not that it was Bush's speech, but that it was Bush's campaign speech. It's hard to imagine any way to make it obvious that Allawi was here for the benefit of the re-election campaign, and not for the benefit of Iraq, but they managed to do it.

I'm definitely suffering from outrage fatigue -- even realizing all this, it didn't elicit more than an appalled sigh.

I wonder whether this administration counts on that.

I'd be hard pressed to say whether it's deliberate, or whether they're just completely shameless. But just to be clear, when I say I have outrage fatigue, it doesn't mean that I don't feel outraged, just that I don't feel more outrage. The meter is pegged, but it's still providing the motivation to spend every minute of free time getting our country back in the hands of rational people. (And if there's anyone reading this who wants to do that, too, but isn't sure how, just ask, and I'll hook you up wherever you are.)

FYI, the administration has apparently admitted that a Bush campaign official was "heavily involved" in writing Allawi's speech:

They're not even hiding it. They are completely shameless.

Thanks for the update!

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