Quote of the Day

“Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?” — George W. Bush, when told in May 2002 that Helen Thomas was questioning the need to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The quote comes from “Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War,” whose authors note that it reveals Bush’s plan for Iraq nearly a year before he invaded and even as he was saying publicly that he hoped to avoid war.