Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002

[rodeodance]

Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002

Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, today:

Q: What planning, if any, has the Pentagon been undertaken for the possibility of military action involving Iran? And has the nuclear strike option been ruled out?

RUMSFELD: You know, someone comes up with an idea, runs it in a magazine or a paper; other papers pick it up and reprint it; editorialists, then, say, Oh, Henny Penny, the sky is falling, and opine on this and opine that.
…But it is just simply not useful to get into fantasyland.

Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/22/02:

Q: Sources say the President has a war plan on his desk about attacking Iraq? What types of options were provided to the President?

Rumsfeld: Of course I could and I won’t. I must say I find the people that are talking to the media about war plans are so far out of line and so disgracefully misbehaving that I find it stunning and a weak effort.
First of all I can tell you that anyone who knows anything isn’t talking and anyone with any sense isn’t talking therefore the people that are talking to the media by definition people who don’t know anything and people who don’t have a hell of a lot of sense.......

http://www.thinkprogress.org/?tag=Iran

[marmar]

1. But that's because he didn't know there were:

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

:)

Only in the Bush administration would this fool still have a job.

[Kutjara]

2. That's the funniest thing I've read all day!!!

Rumsfeldstilskin said: "the people that are talking to the media by definition (are) people who don’t know anything and people who don’t have a hell of a lot of sense."

And to whom did he say this? Why, the media. So that means that he's one of the people who doesn't...I think you know where I'm going with this.

The headline in every paper the next day should have been "I KNOW NOTHING AND HAVE NO SENSE - RUMSFELD."

[cliss]

3. Shortly after 9/11, a reporter asked Rumsfailed

if he had been forthcoming about the information (can't remember the details). He had an innocent look on his face, his eyebrows went up. "Yes, I have been completely forthcoming with the information".

Then he was asked about the State Department and its honesty, "You've GOT to be kidding me". His eyes narrowed, and then you could see a hideous liar. The man he really is.

Rumsfailed is a ghoul, a demon that will haunt the world of the living when he is dead.

[ovidsen]

4. Funny! In a tragic sort of way... n/t