Verbatim

"I was just looking for a warm meal somewhere."
President George W. Bush,
during his surprise Thanksgiving Day visit with U.S. troops in Baghdad

"We were doing our jobs... It is war."
Shawna Edmondson,
one of four U.S. Army military police charged with beating prisoners at a detention camp in Iraq

"It is clear that in the future we will not be in all the places we are now."
Ariel Sharon,
Prime Minister of Israel, conceding that some Jewish settlements in the occupied territories will have...

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