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| 1. | After the embassy attacks in Africa, they were well aware of Osama bin Laden. They were well aware of his location in Afghanistan, his protection by the Taliban, and this Bush administration gave them million this year! |
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| 2. | Also, after the attacks, now people think it's unpatriotic to say anything critical of the government. |
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| 3. | America will really have to understand how corrupt its system is, and they'll have to get so fed up that they're ready to make change. |
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| 4. | And I'm in 250 newspapers, and none of them have asked me to do anything different. |
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| 5. | And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. |
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| 6. | And that's what the war on terrorism is going to do - we're going to lose countless amounts of money, people are going to die and get locked up, but that's it. There's going to be no good coming out of it. We're going to lose our civil rights, and they're going to be gone forever. |
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| 7. | And what happened here is what allowed those attacks to take place. The intelligence community failed. Security failed. The military failed. Everybody failed at the same time. |
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| 8. | Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation. |
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| 9. | Beyond that, I don't think the importance of the strip is about my own personal political agenda. |
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| 10. | But I have a different perspective on things than what the media's putting out, and I thought it was important to voice that, and if it meant losing the New York papers, I think it was worth it. |
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| 11. | But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care. |
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| 12. | Come on, Bush is a moron. There is no doubt about it. |
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| 13. | How long am I going to feel like I have something relevant to say day in and day out? |
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| 14. | I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses. |
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| 15. | I could go to South Africa with what I'm making right now and live like a multimillionaire just off the currency exchange. |
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| 16. | I do the strip, send it out and what the newspapers want to do with it is up to them. It's between them and their readers. |
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| 17. | I don't support the killing of innocent people, and that's what's happening. What's worse is that we're killing innocent people out of retribution for the killing of innocent people. |
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| 18. | I don't think the American people should be worried at all about Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein or anybody, because our government is going to do what it wants to do to them regardless of what we want them to do or not. |
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| 19. | I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that. |
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| 20. | I just happen to have incredibly wide distribution in a medium that doesn't draw a lot of attention to itself. |
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| 21. | I tell you what, I visited Canada, and I liked it. I liked it a lot. |
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| 22. | I think there's a broad opinion being put out through the strip with a combination of all the characters' voices, and it's really up to the reader to figure out what that is. |
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| 23. | I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. |
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| 24. | I'm not a Democrat. |
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| 25. | It would be inaccurate to say that Huey's opinions are my own. |
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| 26. | Now that I have money, I have to find time to really see the rest of the world. |
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| 27. | Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back. |
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| 28. | One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. |
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| 29. | Reporters are afraid that the administration will cut them off. |
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| 30. | So I've been doing exactly what I want, and I haven't felt any pressure to do otherwise. |
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| 31. | The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy. |
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| 32. | The media are a big part of shaping the perception of the country, and right now, they're not asking the tough questions. |
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| 33. | The only thing you can be responsible for is what goes on here. |
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| 34. | The reality is I get pulled all the time from various newspapers for different reasons. |
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| 35. | The reality is this: Me, I'm comfortable. I make a lot of money. |
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| 36. | There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. |
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| 37. | They're not exploring, for example, the Bush administration's financial ties with Afghanistan. The fact that George Bush Sr. has financial investments in the area, and those investments become much more valuable when the Taliban government is removed. |
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| 38. | This country made giant mistakes and failed to protect its people. |
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| 39. | We can't drop enough bombs to bring 4,000 people back, and we can't drop enough bombs to ensure that it never happens again. |
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| 40. | We don't need to be rallying around the government and supporting it, we need to be holding it accountable and being very critical so this type of thing doesn't happen again. |
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| 41. | We have a president who was appointed by the Supreme Court, and there was none of this talk about freedom and love of country at that time. |
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| 42. | We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. |
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| 43. | We have, essentially, a worthless democracy. |
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| 44. | We're gonna be on a cable network and we're gonna be prime time, so there will be no limits. The show's gonna be more about the characters. |
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| 45. | When are they going to say they've defeated terrorism? No one is stupid enough to say that. |
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| 46. | When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. |
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| 47. | When you have money, anyplace is good. |
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| 48. | With over 200 clients, it would be too time-consuming and more trouble than it was worth to worry about what each one was doing and why. |
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| 49. | World War II was 60 years ago. I mean, just in terms of technology, we're not fighting wars the same way. |
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| 50. | You have to be very careful to never threaten the president. |
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| 51. | You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that. |
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| 52. | You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise. |
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