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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • December 21, 2014

    "We've had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police."
    -- former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani

  • December 19, 2014

    "Going back a full half-century...i.e. to 1964 -- there have been only three elections (midterm or presidential) in which a Bush or a Clinton hasn't been on the ballot somewhere for something."
    -- Aaron Blake

  • December 18, 2014

    "I'll tell you what my definition of torture is: what nineteen guys armed with airline tickets and boxcutters did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11."
    -- Dick Cheney

  • December 15, 2014

    "I'd do it again in a minute...I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective."
    -- Dick Cheney on torture

  • December 12, 2014

    "Three thousand Americans died on 9/11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them. I don't know the specific details... I haven't read the report... I keep coming back to the basic, fundamental proposition: how nice do you want to be to the murderers of 3,000 Americans?"
    -- Dick Cheney, asked about the Senate report's account of the torture death of Gul Rahman, who had no connection to 9/11

  • December 11, 2014

    "Full of crap."
    -- Dick Cheney on Senate torture report

  • December 10, 2014

    "Al-Najjar was described as having been left hanging -- which involved handcuffing one or both wrists to an overhead bar which would not allow him to lower his arms -- for 22 hours each day for two consecutive days, in order to "'break' his resistance." It was also noted al-Najjar was wearing a diaper and had no access to toilet facilities."
    -- from Senate torture report

  • December 09, 2014

    "This government does not torture people."
    -- George W. Bush, 10/5/07

  • December 08, 2014

    "We need the frontier. We need people moving into space. My vision is I want to see millions of people living and working in space."
    -- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

  • December 05, 2014

    "I don't want to hear about this hands-up crap. That's not what happened. I don't know exactly what did happen, but I know that's not what happened."
    -- Mike Ditka on Ferguson protest gesture