Department of Self-Parody:

Via Democratic Underground's Top Ten Conservative Idiots, we learn of an interview with Ann Coulter on ‘Saturday Final with Lawrence O’Donnell’ (30 Aug 2003). She said:

These are the same arguments, the precise same arguments that were being made before the war. It’s going to be a quagmire. What is the plan? When do we get out? How much is it going to cost? Someone in the military might get his hair mussed. We heard all these arguments.

Surely Coulter is familiar with a remark made by General Turgidson in the movie Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Minimizing Soviet retaliatory counter-attack casualty statistics, Turgidson says:

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, uh, depending on the breaks.

posted by Quiddity at 9/08/2003 01:02:00 PM