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Best of the Web..Gotcha or Maybe Not (Priceless exchange between Rumsfeld and CA Rep. Sanchez)
Opinion Journal, Best of the Web Today ^

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.

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.
Sometimes it seems as though Congress is run by a bunch of amateurs.
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Watching Donald Rumsfeld put a whiny California liberal in her place: priceless
1 posted on 02/18/2005 8:33:20 PM PST by Democracy In Iraq
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To: Democracy In Iraq

http://www.neoperspectives.com/rumsfeld.htm
The Best of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

For Rummy fans


2 posted on 02/18/2005 8:37:15 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: MEG33
I love love Rummy. I hope he stays on for the entire 4 years
3 posted on 02/18/2005 8:39:01 PM PST by Dustin Hawkins (Friends Dont let Friends Date Democrats www.dustinmhawkins.com)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Loretta "Dirty" Sanchez is no match for Donald Rumsfeld!


4 posted on 02/18/2005 8:39:38 PM PST by murdoog
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Look for "ditz" in the dictionary and they have a picture of Loretta Sanchez.


5 posted on 02/18/2005 8:40:56 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: murdoog
Loretta "Dirty" Sanchez is no match for Donald Rumsfeld!

Heck, she's no match for a sack of tack hammers.

6 posted on 02/18/2005 8:42:29 PM PST by joedelta (Those who long for peace must prepare for war)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

I saw this exchange on Fox News yesterday and it was a riot. Some of these congress critters don't how stupid they are. They ought to be made to look at themselves on TV to see how stupid they look.


7 posted on 02/18/2005 8:45:46 PM PST by rllngrk33 (The Legacy Media is the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

lol


8 posted on 02/18/2005 8:48:20 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead (I believe in American Exceptionalism! Do you?)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Sanchez, isn't she a Mecha type?


9 posted on 02/18/2005 8:49:02 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead (I believe in American Exceptionalism! Do you?)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Sanchez' staff must be as dumb as she sounds. Almost 2 months pass - it's a fluid, fast-moving situation - did anyone think "Duhh, maybe we better see if there are current numbers?"

Of course I know they're not just trying to make Republicans look bad...


10 posted on 02/18/2005 8:50:39 PM PST by Felis_irritable
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To: Texas_Jarhead

Mecha? No, shes meat-tech. No machine is that stupid.





(yes, I know that's not what you meant...)


11 posted on 02/18/2005 8:51:39 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Children classics updated for Islam, "Allah loves me this I know, For the Koran tells me to explode")
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To: Democracy In Iraq

I listened to the exchange, Rep. Sanchez appeared to shrink when Rumsfeld cornered her. At least she got her mug on camera for a few seconds. To her, that makes it worth while. She should know better, Rumsfeld can hold his own with the best of the lot.


12 posted on 02/18/2005 8:51:49 PM PST by fabriclady
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To: Democracy In Iraq
I wonder if Rummy knows "B1" Bob Dornan.

I am sure B1 would enjoy it and have a moment of shadenfrude (spelled correct?) at Sanchez's expense, she really is a dolt....

13 posted on 02/18/2005 8:53:13 PM PST by taildragger
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Loretta Sanchez is an inept nincompoop. Rummy must have felt like he was talking to a particularly petulant teenager.


14 posted on 02/18/2005 8:56:34 PM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Dustin Hawkins

I love SecDefRum too. Back in the beginning of the war on terror, when the media held him as some sort of sex symbol-- duh! I was wayyyyy ahead of them. GO RUMMY!


15 posted on 02/18/2005 8:58:15 PM PST by Fudd Fan ("...not bad. Not bad at all." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Democracy In Iraq
Well put
I find Loretta some what attractive
16 posted on 02/18/2005 8:59:33 PM PST by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Rummy smacked Hillary's buns a good one, too....

(heard on Rush today)
HILLARY CLINTON: It strikes me a little odd that we would deploy a system that hasn't succeeded and expect that to serve a deterrent value. So I don't understand the sequencing of this.

DONALD RUMSFELD: I think the word "deploying" needs to be calibrated. What's being done here is not a pure test and not a pure deployment, but deploying the pieces of the capability that will evolve into an early missile defense capability, and the way to do that, according to the people
who are working on this -- and I agree and subscribe to the concept -- is to get it in the ground in a modest way, work the problems, keep testing, and as that capability evolves, you will begin to have the early stages of a missile defense capability. If you didn't do anything until you could do everything, you probably wouldn't do anything.

DONALD RUMSFELD: This is the way airplanes evolved. It's the way most -- it's certainly the way satellite systems evolved and it seems to me that they're proceeding on a measured, not a hell-bent-for-leather approach, but a measured approach to a complicated problem which, frankly, given what we read about Iran and what we read about North Korea, ought to be reassuring to us that we're doing what we're doing, and that we're at least on a track to have that capability in the period ahead, assuming we can continue to work out the kinks and the difficulties.


link for this whole (Rush) show segment:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021805/content/truth_detector_2.guest.html


17 posted on 02/18/2005 9:00:19 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Dustin Hawkins
During the election campaign a Kerry supporter asked how long I thought Mr. Rumsfeld would last as Secretary of Defense. My reply was, "not for than another 4 years, unless of course President Guilani asks him to stay on." The reaction was priceless.
18 posted on 02/18/2005 9:01:33 PM PST by Bernard ("Those weren't lies - that was spin!")
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Wonderful, his doesn't-back-down style makes me weak in the knees.


19 posted on 02/18/2005 9:01:47 PM PST by Ruth A.
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To: Democracy In Iraq

What a dunce. The stupidity we get from some Congress critters is amazing.


20 posted on 02/18/2005 9:08:04 PM PST by demlosers
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