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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • June 18, 2014

     "Rarely has a president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many."
    -- Dick and Liz Cheney on Obama, June 18, 2014

    "Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? If you take down the central government of Iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq."
    -- Dick Cheney, April 15, 1994 

    "We will, in fact,  be greeted as liberators."
    -- Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

    "When I think civil war, I think Antietam, Gettysburg. I don't think we're there yet."
    -- Dick Cheney, October 25, 2006

    "So?"
    -- Dick Cheney, when informed by a reporter that two-thirds of Americans do not think the Iraq war was worth the cost, March 19, 2008

    "If there is one thing this country does not need, it is that we should be taking advice from Dick Cheney on wars."
    -- Sen. Harry Reid



  • June 17, 2014

    "Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way."
    -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry

  • June 16, 2014

    "As time passes, it'll be like the Hollywood sign...I have the hottest brand in the world right now, and there are those who are saying I'm doing Chicago a favor."
    -- Donald Trump on the controversial 20-foot-high 'Trump' on his new skyscraper

  • June 13, 2014

    "I don't have a well-crafted response on that one."
    -- Professor of Economics and GOP Congressional candidate David Brat, when asked if he favored raising the minimum wage

  • June 12, 2014

    "It's been doing that for centuries. It gets hot, it gets cold...Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Were there men that were causing -- were there cars running around at that point, that were causing global warming? No."
    -- Rep. Jeff Miller on climate change

  • June 11, 2014

    "Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong."
    -- Indian politician Babulai Gaur, on rape

  • June 10, 2014

    "It's better not to argue with women."
    -- Vladimir Putin

  • June 08, 2014

    "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
    -- Twitter post by the CIA

  • June 06, 2014

    "I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me."
    -- Maureen Dowd, after ignoring cautions to not eat too much magic candy

  • June 05, 2014

    "He says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son's out now. So if you really didn't want to look like a member of the Taliban, you don't have to look like a member of the Taliban. Are you out of razors?"
    -- Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Bob Bergdahl, father of released POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl