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Best of the Web..Gotcha or Maybe Not (Priceless exchange between Rumsfeld and CA Rep. Sanchez)
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Posted on 02/18/2005 8:33:16 PM PST by Democracy In Iraq

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To: Democracy In Iraq

I always wish I could read her next response to Rummy. Or did she simply slink under the table?.


41 posted on 02/19/2005 8:58:48 AM PST by wildbill
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The full transcript of that exchange is located here. Sanchez's time was up, so there really wasn't more to say except that Rumsfeld wanted to elaborate on an earlier point. Here's how it went, picking up from the point where Rumsfeld called Sanchez out:
RUMSFELD: ...The date on my paper here is February 14th. What's yours?

SANCHEZ: December 20th.

RUMSFELD: Not surprising there's a difference.

SANCHEZ: But the difference is different in different categories, not in the same...

HUNTER: If the gentlemen will hold on for a minute, the gentlelady's time is up, and we're going to try to knock out a few more questions here before the...

SANCHEZ: Mr. Chairman, you spoke during my time, Mr. Chairman.

RUMSFELD: I'm going to finish if I may.

HUNTER: OK, Mr. Secretary, if you can wrap up fairly quickly...

RUMSFELD: I'll like to just finish the last thought.

General Petreaus is in charge of the training and equipping of Iraqi security forces. And General Casey and General Abizaid are the ones who advice us as to what the force levels ought to be in the country.

And it appears that General Petreaus doesn't agree with them and that's fine. I'm sure other people don't agree with General Casey or General Abizaid.

But I take my advice on this subject from General Abizaid, General Casey, and General Myers and General Pace, and all four of them think we have the right size force.

UNKNOWN: Thank you.

MYERS: Well, I talked to General Petreaus last Wednesday night on this very subject, and I don't think he would disagree with the force levels we have there that the secretary mentioned earlier. I think he's in agreement with General Casey and General Abizaid.

HUNTER: I thank the gentlelady.
Not sure what Sanchez was trying to say after the exchange, but considering that she began her sentence with something as pathetic as "the difference is different in different categories", it sounds like she was just babbling in confusion.
42 posted on 02/19/2005 9:46:08 AM PST by Democracy In Iraq (Iraq: Newest land of the free and home of the brave.)
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To: river rat

The Democrats have a pathetically shallow bench. I'm afraid the next level down is the intellectual basement and Janeanne Garofalo.


43 posted on 02/19/2005 1:45:14 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Deb

The level of discourse is pathetic.


44 posted on 02/19/2005 1:47:59 PM PST by wildbill
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Like monkeys, I expect them to start throwing their poop next.

(Yikes! This is the second thread I got to say "poop" on. Thanks, Democrats!)

45 posted on 02/19/2005 1:51:13 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Democracy In Iraq

Gee what happened between Dec and feb?

Perhaps it was that election thingy?

Just more proof that Democrats are well schooled in the art of lying. She was basically doing a nevil chamberlin by waiving the out dated paper in Rumsfeld's face.

She did not expect him to have the real numbers.


46 posted on 02/19/2005 1:53:36 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Deetes

This is hilarious! What did Sanchez do after she got the Rummy smackdown?


47 posted on 02/21/2005 4:30:03 AM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: Democracy In Iraq; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; ...

LOL!!!


48 posted on 02/21/2005 4:47:19 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: murdoog

Loretta "Dirty" Sanchez is no match for a very small very dumb flatworm.


49 posted on 02/21/2005 6:42:45 AM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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To: Democracy In Iraq
Good lord, you'd think it would have been obvious to Ms. Sanchez she was looking at outdated troop figures.
50 posted on 02/21/2005 7:12:01 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: Democracy In Iraq
Not sure what Sanchez was trying to say after the exchange, but considering that she began her sentence with something as pathetic as "the difference is different in different categories", it sounds like she was just babbling in confusion.

She was attempting to build a strawman, and it crumbled right before everyones eyes.

51 posted on 02/21/2005 7:14:21 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: libs_kma

She just sat there looking stupid. I saw the whole hearing on CSPAN last week.


52 posted on 02/21/2005 7:15:35 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: Democracy In Iraq
LOL! Good one!

And BTW, wasn't Sanchez the one who was going to hold a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion until public reaction forced her to relocate the fundraiser?

53 posted on 02/21/2005 7:17:16 AM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: Deb
Like monkeys, I expect them to start throwing their poop next.

Oh dear God, I'm howling like a monkey!! :) LOL! My insides just got a good workout.... thanks!

I hope I can use that phrase in a casual conversation sometime today.

54 posted on 02/21/2005 8:50:50 AM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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