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Gitmo blahblahblah AbuGraib blahblahblahblah Koran blahblahblah airconditioning blahblahblahblah Gitmo blahblahblah panties blahblahblah Bushlied blahblahblah, Gitmo...
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Nah, no one could consume that much alcohol and live.
John McLame appeared to be snoozing as Rumsfield was making his opening statements. McLame appears to have more chins than brains!
*arriving late once again BUMP*
Byrd is now lecturing the secretary for lecturing the committee.
I'm now settling in to listen to Byrd make an ass out of himself again.
Leni
For lalter.
I wonder where Donny Rumsfeld looked up that precise statistic. Has the defense department commisioned a study on this? Is it too sensitive to be released to the public?
Instead of providing the public with such a precise timetable that could come back to haunt him later, Rummy should have relied on one of his classic, poetic rants: "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."
I think the insurgency would fall under the "known unknowns" category, don't you? Though given his pre-war timetables you'd have to assume that prior to the invasion, at least in his dark cloud of a mind, it was an "unknown unknown". But wouldn't it be great if he just pulled out those kind of classic quotes once in a while? You know, in the middle of an interview, quoting himself verbatim from a previous press conference - like he was doing an impression of himself. It might at least put a smile on your face in spite of the horror you're feeling inside when you listen to what he says.