Quotes from the week after 9/11/

[spectr17]

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" - Todd Beamer's last words heard by a GTE phone supervisor as he and other passengers attempted to take contol of Flight 93 from the hijackers.

"I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." - President Bush.

"My job is search and rescue, your job Mr. President, is "Search and destroy". Unknown NY fireman to President Bush.

"Ich bein ein COWARD" - posted on Free Republic thread regarding Germany's hesitation to aid our military effort.


"This just in....The French have surrendered to Afghanistan. I wondered when those cheese eating surrender monkeys would get around to that. Looks like the French have broken their land speed record for "oui-oui-ing" in their pants.". - Several posts on Free Republic regarding France's position on helping our military.

"We need to remember how much we owe them and remind ourselves what they tried to establish.'' - Historian David McCullough saying Americans should take heart after last week's terrorist attacks by recalling the strength of the country's founders.

Got any other quotes from this past week?

[kinglongshanks]

"Wanted, dead or alive!" ###by George W.

[gizz]

"I want to underline this fact. There is no mention of Afghanistan or its people, or against Islam." "This is not a question of cowardice or strength. We are very strong people. Showing strength without wisdom is a kind of foolishness," he said. "Pakistan comes first. Everything else is second." --Pakistan's leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf

"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards." - Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah

"You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane." - James Kallstrom, the retired FBI agent who led the investigation into the explosive crash of TWA 800

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them" -- the president from the Oval Office of the White House as he promised retaliation.

[Duke]

"May God Have mercy on them because we won't"-- Sen. John Macain

[spectr17]

"Make 'em gooey with the big kablooey" - Magnum Force.

"Why isn't this guy wired for sound already?" - post on Free Republic regarding one of the suspects picked up with false IDs and box cutters.

[kinglongshanks]

"Go ahead, make my day" ###Obvious.

[karstic]

"Let's Roll!!!" - Last words of Todd Beamer on flight 93 before he and other passengers attempted to take control of the aircraft.