Rumsfeld is covering his ASS!

[Tim4319]

This administration is self destructing. First Condi Rice, now this!

-Snip-

Rumsfeld, during a question-and-answer session before the Council on Foreign Relations, had been asked to explain the connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network -- one of the U.S. arguments for launching a war on Iraq.

He replied: "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2004Oct5.html

[Kierkegaard]

1. Sounds like somebody* just lost a talking point...

You are watching a crumbling administration covering ass like there's no tomorrow. I love it!

[Tim4319]

7. Oh, what a fall it would be!

I don't even think all of the kings horse and men could put this admin. back together again.

[anarchy1999]

2. What's new and doesn't he always?

n/t

He should have been removed many months ago.

[drfemoe]

3. He's just 'misundertood' sheesh

Rumsfeld Says He Was Misunderstood on Iraq-Al Qaeda
Tue Oct 5, 2004 05:54 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
"I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between al Qaeda and Iraq," Rumsfeld said in a Web site statement issued following remarks he made to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Monday.

"Today at the Council, I even noted that 'when I'm in Washington, I pull out a piece of paper and say "I don't know, because I'm not in that business, but I'll tell you what the CIA thinks" and I read it'."
>snip<
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6414697

But, we can rest easy, because he 'reads'. Yah. I'll rest easy.

[OKNancy]

4. He has already flip-flopped

Check LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x884640

[Jacobin]

5. He flipped back to the old position one hour later

Guess Dickless Cheney threatened him. There's a link on LBN to flip flop

[frogbison]

6. Had to laugh

yesterday on the Diane Rehm Show (NPR) when the caller spoke of Ronald Dumbsfeld. (They said that his question was "off topic," but still, it was funny!)

[Tim4319]

8. I'm sure Darth Vader had gotten to him.

[gratuitous]

9. Cheney calls up Rumsfeld

Cheney: "I find your lack of vision most distressing." Holds up his thumb and forefinger about a quarter inch apart.

Rumsfeld: "Lord Cheney . . . ack! Erk! Uckle."

Powell: "This bickering is pointless. Release him, Cheney."

Cheney: "As you wish."

Rumsfeld, panting, calls up various media outlets to tell them what he really meant to say.