Rumsfeld Admits 2.3 Trillion Missing on 09/10/01

[mrdemocrat78]

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[soothsayer]

1. I was happy to hear Cynthia McKinney saying we want it back!

This needs to be brought up more often, imho.

[underpants]

2. Kicking and recommending-thanks I have been looking for this

the Rummy quote disappeared for a long time.

This isn't really a Bush thing part of the problem is that there are 1,400 accounting systems being used by the DoD. Why/How so many? When someone creates a new software system they get their congress person to buy X copies of it and it often gets dumped into the DoD or some other huge bureaucracy. Clinton/Gore were working on this but of course W et al had to ignore and reverse everything they did which is how we got to 9/11 but that is another story.

[Double T]

3. No further wonder why washington d.c. breeds a culture of corruption..........

so who has enough balls to revamp the dod?

[lovuian]

4. The biggest robbery in America

saddest thing for our children

[Lasher]

5. Guess this must have been a known unknown

Unknown by us but I'll bet Rummy knew.

[gordianot]

6. "Known Unknown" Rummmy's only contribution to the American Lexicon.

The Unknown
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


......The rest is lies, deceptions, and theft.

[Danascot]

8. This concept is actually quite useful

I'm an architect and the idea is particularly applicable to the many things that typically come up in renovation projects. In fact for years my early stage renovation cost estimates have had one contingency for known unknowns (things I should have thought of had I looked at everything exhaustively; example - I forgot to include an allowance for special light fixtures) and another for unknown unknowns (things that come out of left field that I would never have guessed; example - the wall we thought was solid turns out to be rotten when we take down the plaster and has to be replaced), though I didn't call them by those terms that's exactly what they were.

... though I'm not happy it was Rumbo who came up with it.

[rman]

10. these are truisms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truism

"A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device.

In logic, a proposition may be a truism even if it is not a tautology, a restatement of a definition, or a theorem derived from axioms that are generally held to be true. In fact, some would say that such analytic propositions should not be regarded as truisms.

In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. An example of such a sentence would be: "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support — a statement of what those appropriate conditions are — the sentence is true but uncontestable. A statement which is true by definition ("All cats are mammals.") would also be considered a truism.

Often the word is used to disguise the fact that a proposition is really just a half-truth or an opinion, especially in rhetoric."

[Tom Joad]

7. did he check the couch cushions?

[fryguy]

9. I want my $8000 back! - n/t

[undergroundpanther]

11. Missing?

While Walter reed decays, while poor and disabled people suffer, while old people suffer and this is just missing..well, I think it's time to DRAG it out of the pentagon. THE TRUTH of where our taxes go must get revealed down to the last nickle and if it's lost wring it out of this administration.. take it all out of these rich fuckers hides and take it from their Ceo connections and contractors "personal and family fortunes" . Make it painful and PERSONAL, because The Whitehouse corruption and carelessness affects ME personally..Rumfeld is a criminal pig and he must pay for his crimes..WE pay so,how come THEY don't pay anything and yet"lose" trillions and nobody notices.If I lost track of fifty bucks by neglecting taxes.. I'd be audited and the IRS would screw me to the wall.. So how come nobody audits the conservative psychopathic and RICH??

[libodem]

12. They ought to cough it back up

and forget about begging congress for the next 100 million. It will only go to lining halliburton's pockets anyway.