Posted on 02/18/2005 8:33:16 PM PST by Democracy In Iraq
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Gotcha! (Or Maybe Not)
Blogger Joe Fairbanks notes a hilarious exchange between Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D., Calif.) and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. As the latter testified Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee, the former tried but failed to catch him in a misstatement of fact:
Sanchez: Unfortunately, as I said, this committee has had a hard time assessing where we really stand with the Iraqi army as an effective fighting force. Over the past year, we've received incredibly widely fluctuating estimates of that. And I think you have a real credibility problem on this issue.Sometimes it seems as though Congress is run by a bunch of amateurs.
Rumsfeld: Fluctuations of what?
Sanchez: The fluctuations of--the numbers that you bandy around about how many troops we really have out there that are Iraqi police, et cetera, et cetera. . . .
Rusmfeld: Now, you say we bandy around numbers. They're not my numbers. I don't invent them. They come from Gen. Petraeus. . . .
Sanchez: I have Petraeus's numbers. They're different than your numbers, by the way.
Rumsfeld: Well, what's the date? They aren't different because these came from Petraeus. He may have two sets of numbers, but they are not different if the date's the same. The date on my paper here is Feb. 14. What's yours?
Sanchez: Dec. 20.
Rumsfeld: Not surprising there's a difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
I love it when GWB talks tough too.
Sanchez: Dec. 20.
Rumsfeld: Not surprising there's a difference.
LOL! Laura Ingraham had the audio of this on her show this morning :D
"They ought to be made to look at themselves on TV to see how stupid they look."
I suspect they do look and do see..It's why they hate him..
It does not cure their stupid question/wrong facts asserted problem, however.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops
Newt Gingrich, a close confidant of the defense secretary, said that to understand Rumsfeld you have to analyze his early passion for high school, collegiate, and Navy wrestling. "Wrestling is a very lonely business," Gingrich says. "You're by yourself in the arena. It's also a business of great precision. If you snatch wrong, you lose. So, a quarter inch can make a big difference. It's a sport of enormous focus because the match is very fast, very short, and very decisive. So you start with the idea he was at Princeton, so you know he's smart; and he voluntarily went out for wrestling, so you know he's stunningly competitive. And you know that he has a disciplined, focused ability to think about things." The sport, Gingrich says, "tends to produce very confident people who don't mind being visible, because everybody can watch them, and ain't nothing between them and winning and losing."
Rumsfeld's War, The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
For many years in a row Loretta Sanchez has been voted the "dumbest person in Congress" by the hill staffers. That means she's dumber than Patrick (Who's My Daddy?) Kennedy!!
You gotta love the guy.
But dealing with wingnuts like that everyday must get annoying ;-)
That needs to be a bumper sticker
I wonder if the rumors are true about the tree stumps in D.C. turning their backs to her? (Actually, I have no idea which side of a tree stump is the back, but they know.)
"If you didn't do anything until you could do everything, you probably wouldn't do anything."
There is so much truth in this statement!
Great picture! Take that, you Dims!
Sanchez, an amateur "boxer"!
That's a joke, right? That simple pissant Loretta Sanchez really said that to Rumsfeld??
Than how the hell has she managed a seat on the House Armed Service Committee??!!
She's a Democrat, silly.
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