Bush & Benefactor

"Because that's how much the Saudi royalty and their associates have given the Bush family and their friends and their related businesses in the past three decades.

"Is it rude to suggest that when the Bush family wakes up in the morning they might be thinking about what's best for the Saudi's instead of what's best for you or me?

"Cause $1.4 billion just doesn't buy a lot of flights out of the country, it buys a lot of love..."

"Shiny happy people, holding hands, Shiny happy people, holding hands, Shiny happy people laughing, Everyone around, love them, love them..."

Argument Clinic

The first episode was recorded on 7 September 1969, and broadcast on 5 October of the same year on BBC One, with a total of 45 episodes airing over four seasons.

The show often targeted the idiosyncrasies of British life (especially professionals) and was at times politically charged. The members of Monty Python were highly educated Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford graduates; while Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman are Cambridge graduates; and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate, with their comedy often pointedly intellectual by way of numerous references to philosophers and literary figures.

Dry Aral Sea

"Water is central to the global environmental crisis. Rising sea levels, polluted water systems, and dried up lakes and rivers are just a tip of the iceberg. Many low lying Pacific islands are in danger of disappearing under water soon.

Russia's Lake Baikal holds one-fifth of the world's fresh water resources. Industrial plant waste, the poaching of Baikal's fish, and chaotic construction are all ruining the lake's ecological composition.

Russia's Aral Sea, once one of the world's largest inland seas, is now a desert...

Sen Byron Dorgan

Senator Byron Dorgan: "So the Pentagon is saying, well, Senator Dorgan and those who disclosing this are inaccurate. Haliburton is saying it's inaccurate. Pentagon's saying it's inaccurate. Everything is just fine. Here's what the Inspector General says, 'Things aren't fine. The water was not treated as it was supposed to have been treated. Contaminated to the troops. Some troops got sick.' In some cases this water that was twice as contaminated as raw water from the Euphrates River was flowing as non-potable water to these military bases.

"When we got the information from the Haliburton Corporation whistle-blowers, Haliburton denied it and so too did America's military. Now we know the Inspector General says, 'no, no that's exactly what was happening.'"