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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 03:49 PM
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Buzzflash: Rumsfeld, Caught in a Lie, Left Stammering Like a Ninny
on Face the Nation. A portion of the transcript appears below:


http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/03/ana04004.html


SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, though, granted all of that is true, why then did they pose an immediate threat to us, to this country?

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you're the--you and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase `immediate threat.' I didn't. The president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's--that's what's happened. The president went...

SCHIEFFER: You're saying that nobody in the administration said that.

Sec. RUMSFELD: I--I can't speak for nobody--everybody in the administration and say nobody said that.

SCHIEFFER: Vice president didn't say that? The...

Sec. RUMSFELD: Not--if--if you have any citations, I'd like to see 'em.

Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one here. It says `some have argued that the nu'--this is you speaking--`that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: And--and...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: It was close to imminent.

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, I've--I've tried to be precise, and I've tried to be accurate. I'm s--suppose I've...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: `No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. It--my view of--of the situation was that he--he had--we--we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that--that we believed and we still do not know--we will know.

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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 03:50 PM
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1. LOL! Saw this yesterday, but not in full. Great transcript. (nt)
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 03:51 PM
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2. That was so great!
Here's your ass mr. Rummy, on a silver platter!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:00 PM
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3. Makes me wonder: more hated secretary of defense? ---
Rumsfeld or McNamara?
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:03 PM
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4. Is this for real? If so Rums should be fired. And why not drug and
psychological testing for our leaders as I've been advocating for years? Why should we have to piss in a bottle for jobs that have a billion times less responsibility? Do you think drug testing in fact is the force that triggered the downfall of the Empire? It's disgusting and degrading what they've made the America citizens go through!

Now, I want to have them see Psychiatrists monthly to ensure America's safety. Then I want them to have lie-detector tests.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:07 PM
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5. wow, the media actually did their job for one?
Now, if they can just line up similar interviews with W, Cheney, Condi, etc... Maybe we can have Will Pitt and others give the interviewers some questions?
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:15 PM
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6. But if there WASN'T an iminment or immediate threat
THEN WHY THE HECK DID YOU INVADE?????



:headbang:
rocknation

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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:21 PM
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7. you didn't get the message
You didn't get the Iraq Invasion Reason #52 memo? We actually removed Saddam because he was a really, really bad man, had mass graves, and could have developed WMD programs in the future, which would have led to them starting to develop WMDs.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:29 PM
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11. The actual reason, I think, was that he was our monster and we could
do what we wanted with him. That was the Bush administration's reasoning, I believe. The US doesn't make a habit of deposing bad, bad leaders, though there have been scores and scores of them. There were reasons why it was suddenly okay to depose Saddam that the standard answer doesn't get at.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:37 PM
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14. Er... what's wrong with mass graves? What were the Iraqis SUPPOSED to do
with all the bodies from the Gulf War?
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:22 PM
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8. Good gorsh -
Edited on Mon Mar-15-04 04:24 PM by FlaGranny
Rumsfeld is beginning to sound like GW!!!!
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:27 PM
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9. Geez he is almost as incoherent as Chimpy...holy cow...*lol*
what a sorry-ass bunch of total losers we have running this country...
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homelandpunk Donating Member (787 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:28 PM
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10. I'm sure whore Schieffer scolded Friedman afterwards. Was Schieffer
looking for the mic cord to Friedman with a scissors in his hands? That fucking old Bush whore.
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ElementaryPenguin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:30 PM
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12. Sometimes liars have the most trouble answering the most basic
aspect of their lie. This is at once revolting and hilarious!!
What a pathetic fucking monster Herr (Shock and Awe) Scumsfeld truly is!! Kerry should bring him up at every opportunity - along with Dr. Evil Cheney, Ashcroft and Rove!

:evilgrin:
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ignatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:32 PM
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13. This really makes me think that the "real" money people,
the Rockerfellers, Harrimans,Mellons,etc..want Dimson out. Friedman was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Iraq war.

I would read his rah,rah..go to war columns and feel physically ill. Something has changed big time if HE is questioning the motives for war of the BFEE.

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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:41 PM
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15. The Media
The Media smells the blood drops of Bushco. Soon their will be a steady flow. Their will be a Media feeding frenzy.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:50 PM
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16. This man deserves to be publicly humiliated
For his arrogant pride, his spectacular incompetence, and his deeply, ghoulishly evil disposition.



http://www.wgoeshome.com
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 06:40 PM
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17. The man is an Embarrassment as is his boss
Lawd help us, these guys will ruin America yet.
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