Two Quotes. From Two Perspectives.
Posted by Radley Balko on July 03, 2003
Gene found these, and had the good sense to put them together. I'll now shamelelssly co-opt them for your reading plesaure:
Here's what Staff Sgt. Charles Pollard -- who's actually in the line of fire -- has to say about the one-dead-per-day ambushes, bombings and sniper attacks our troops are enduring as part of the Iraq occupation:
"I pray every day on the roof. I pray that we make it safe, that we make it safe home. The president needs to know it's in his hands, and we all need to recognize this isn't our home, America is, and we just pray that he does something about it."
From the confines of the White House, behind a brick wall of Secret Service agents, here's what President Bush had to say about the one-dead-per-day ambushes, bombings and sniper attacks our troops are enduring as part of the Iraq occupation:
"Bring 'em on."
Brazen and brave, this urban cowboy with bodyguards.
