"The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Article III [of the Geneva Conventions] would add to those doubts."

General Colin Powell (retired), former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former Secretary of State

When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American…

When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"… look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:

Who has left this hole in the ground?

We have not forgotten, Mr. President.

You have.

— Keith Olbermann, "Special Comment" on Countdown (MSNBC), 11 September 2006 [video]