husk quotes

Hussein isn't just sitting on the fence; he is the fence.

-Anonymous
  Unknown US diplomat on  Jordan's King Hussein prior to making peace with Palestine. Quoted in The Times, 22  Jul.

And what you thought you came for Is onlya shell, a husk of meaning From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled If at all. Either you had no purpose Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfilment.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks in history.

-John pseudonym of  David John Moore Cornwell Le Carre 
  In Time, 27  Jan.

Weare not going after Saddam Hussein.If I caneliminate his ability to communicate with his forces, I would be entirely satisfied with that result.

- H Norman Schwarzkopf
  Press briefing on the start of the Gulf War,15 Jan.