Wednesday, February 17, 2010

1751...Is This Paris? Or Bagdad?

I always get those two mixed up.

The women.

The nightlife.

Their love for foreign armies.

Showtime's Penn and Teller's Bullshit inspired me to do some research on Dick Armey, the former Republican Congressional leader and this is a cute quote that I uncovered:

Robert Draper's Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush recounts a conversation in late summer 2002 between Armey and Cheney. Armey insisted that American forces would get "mired down" in Iraq if they invaded, but Cheney offered this assurance: "They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two."


Beauty, eh?

WFDS

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