— Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as Pentagon leaders scrambled to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. “The scary part is, we still have three more months to go. I look out
“The scary part is, we still have three more months to go. I look out and go, ‘Oh my gosh, where can it all go?”‘
— Kathryn Hawkins, of Valdez, Alaska, as the state is buried in weather that has dumped more than twice as much snow as usual on its largest city.
“The danger is that this kind of video can be misused in many ways to undermine what we are trying to do in Afghanistan and the possibility of reconciliation.”
— Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as Pentagon leaders scrambled to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.
