Buzzflash: Rumsfeld, Caught in a Lie, Left Stammering Like a Ninny

[BurtWorm]

on Face the Nation. A portion of the transcript appears below:


http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/03/ana04004.html


SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, though, granted all of that is true, why then did they pose an immediate threat to us, to this country?

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you're the--you and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase `immediate threat.' I didn't. The president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's--that's what's happened. The president went...

SCHIEFFER: You're saying that nobody in the administration said that.

Sec. RUMSFELD: I--I can't speak for nobody--everybody in the administration and say nobody said that.

SCHIEFFER: Vice president didn't say that? The...

Sec. RUMSFELD: Not--if--if you have any citations, I'd like to see 'em.

Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one here. It says `some have argued that the nu'--this is you speaking--`that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: And--and...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: It was close to imminent.

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, I've--I've tried to be precise, and I've tried to be accurate. I'm s--suppose I've...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: `No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. It--my view of--of the situation was that he--he had--we--we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that--that we believed and we still do not know--we will know.

[jpgray]

1. LOL! Saw this yesterday, but not in full. Great transcript. (nt)

[NC_Nurse]

2. That was so great!

Here's your ass mr. Rummy, on a silver platter!

[Bertha Venation]

3. Makes me wonder: more hated secretary of defense? ---

Rumsfeld or McNamara?

[dArKeR]

4. Is this for real? If so Rums should be fired. And why not drug and

psychological testing for our leaders as I've been advocating for years? Why should we have to piss in a bottle for jobs that have a billion times less responsibility? Do you think drug testing in fact is the force that triggered the downfall of the Empire? It's disgusting and degrading what they've made the America citizens go through!

Now, I want to have them see Psychiatrists monthly to ensure America's safety. Then I want them to have lie-detector tests.

[NewJeffCT]

5. wow, the media actually did their job for one?

Now, if they can just line up similar interviews with W, Cheney, Condi, etc... Maybe we can have Will Pitt and others give the interviewers some questions?

[rocktivity]

6. But if there WASN'T an iminment or immediate threat

THEN WHY THE HECK DID YOU INVADE?????



:headbang:
rocknation

[NewJeffCT]

7. you didn't get the message

You didn't get the Iraq Invasion Reason #52 memo? We actually removed Saddam because he was a really, really bad man, had mass graves, and could have developed WMD programs in the future, which would have led to them starting to develop WMDs.

[BurtWorm]

11. The actual reason, I think, was that he was our monster and we could

do what we wanted with him. That was the Bush administration's reasoning, I believe. The US doesn't make a habit of deposing bad, bad leaders, though there have been scores and scores of them. There were reasons why it was suddenly okay to depose Saddam that the standard answer doesn't get at.

[radwriter0555]

14. Er... what's wrong with mass graves? What were the Iraqis SUPPOSED to do

with all the bodies from the Gulf War?

[FlaGranny]

8. Good gorsh -

Rumsfeld is beginning to sound like GW!!!!

[grannylib]

9. Geez he is almost as incoherent as Chimpy...holy cow...*lol*

what a sorry-ass bunch of total losers we have running this country...

[homelandpunk]

10. I'm sure whore Schieffer scolded Friedman afterwards. Was Schieffer

looking for the mic cord to Friedman with a scissors in his hands? That fucking old Bush whore.

[ElementaryPenguin]

12. Sometimes liars have the most trouble answering the most basic

aspect of their lie. This is at once revolting and hilarious!!
What a pathetic fucking monster Herr (Shock and Awe) Scumsfeld truly is!! Kerry should bring him up at every opportunity - along with Dr. Evil Cheney, Ashcroft and Rove!

:evilgrin:

[ignatius]

13. This really makes me think that the "real" money people,

the Rockerfellers, Harrimans,Mellons,etc..want Dimson out. Friedman was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Iraq war.

I would read his rah,rah..go to war columns and feel physically ill. Something has changed big time if HE is questioning the motives for war of the BFEE.

[Disturbed]

15. The Media

The Media smells the blood drops of Bushco. Soon their will be a steady flow. Their will be a Media feeding frenzy.

[boobooday]

16. This man deserves to be publicly humiliated

For his arrogant pride, his spectacular incompetence, and his deeply, ghoulishly evil disposition.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[opihimoimoi]

17. The man is an Embarrassment as is his boss

Lawd help us, these guys will ruin America yet.