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"Most of the major key judgments ... were either overstated or were not supported by the underlying intelligence reporting."
U.S. SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, describing an October 2002 national-intelligence report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that led to President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq

"Iraq had no significant chemical or biological weapons, if any, and had not developed plans for using them."
REPORT, presented by Lord Butler, on Britain's prewar intelligence justifying the war in Iraq

"Blood draws more blood, and I don't believe in that at all. We have to be strong enough to forgive."
GHAZI AJIL AL-YAWAR, Iraq's interim President, justifying an amnesty program for some Iraqi insurgents

"All politicians should get one, because then we would know where they are when they steal our money."
ARMANDO MARTINEZ, shopkeeper, on the microchip implanted in the arm of Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo, which emits radio signals that would allow him to be tracked if he were kidnapped

"Trespassers will be eaten."
SIGN, posted outside the Miami residence of actor Steve Sipek, who played Tarzan in the late '60s. Last week, one of Sipek's two pet tigers escaped and was shot by a wildlife officer

"Emulation of the infidels leads to loving them, glorifying them and raising their status in the eyes of the Muslim, and that is forbidden."
SAUDI ARABIAN TEXTBOOK, urging teenagers not to befriend Christians or Jews. The book is part of a revamped curriculum supposedly designed to be less anti-Western

"This is the reason I didn't win. I've got y'all on my back."
TIM MONTGOMERY, the world's fastest sprinter, blaming heavy media coverage of a charge that he used illegal steroids for his failure to qualify for the U.S. track team at the Athens Olympics