VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD

[CatWoman]

Speaking in Atlanta today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was sharply questioned about his pre-war claims about WMD in Iraq. An audience member confronted Rumsfeld with his 2003 claim about WMD, “We know where they are.” Rumsfeld falsely claimed he never said it. The audience member then read Rumsfeld’s quote back to him, leaving the defense secretary speechless.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/04/rumsfeld-called-out/

the transcript is located here: http://thinkprogress.org/rumsfeld-called-tscript/

[ixion]

1. yeah, they're there... east, west, south and north somewhat

eh, Rummy? :evilgrin:

You and the chimpenfuerher will have a cell right next to one another in the Hague where you can lie back and forth to yourselves to your hearts content.

[redqueen]

2. et tu, CatWoman?

;)

[CatWoman]

3. heh!!

:D

[acmavm]

4. That was BEAUTIFUL. Caught on camera lying his ass off.

That really made what was a crappy day a hell of a lot better.

[sweetheart]

23. It really was BEAUTIFUL

Kudos to an honest man trying to get an honest answer from a pathological liar.

There was one point, right before rumsfeld went on the "you're getting a lot of play
there" attack, where he was really shaken... he needed a dose of control freakery
so he went ad hominem as they always do.

It was a priceless exchange.. that lying scumbag bullshit war criminal is
indefensible. I hope they make him wear chemical weapons gear in prison
just because he "might" encounter e-colii.

[Mabus]

5. Replaying on CNN now

Wolfie is asking for a "reality check."

[AnneD]

21. Everyone knows

reality leans to the left....

[Mabus]

29. ain't that the truth

don't forget the corollary, "hippies are always right" - we've been right about global warming, hormone-free food and recycling.

[carincross]

6. Ray McGovern is the questioner

Ray McGovern, a 27 year CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity is the questioner. He frequently has articles published on http://www.truthout.org.

[Synnical]

11. That was wonderful to watch

Thanks Mr. McGovern!:thumbsup:

[dogday]

19. He was at the DSM Meeting, and I was

amazed at the amount of knowledge this man has... He has facts and figures and it must be hard as hell to argue with him....

[Clovis Sangrail]

7. hahahahahahaha

I wish he'd kept on him about his previous statements though.
He nailed Rummy in a lie and then allowed the subject to be changed.

If he'd just kept throwing it back at him that these are his DOCUMENTED words the squirm factor would have been nearly as good as the correspondendts dinner.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

17. Let's hope

that what Stephen Colbert did will give more folks the courage to put the liars on the spot this way (altho it sounds like Mr. McGovern already has it!). :)

This video is SO great!

Edited to add: Ray McGovern has a page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McGovern

[CatWoman]

18. I think Steve has opened the floodgates!!!

[cdb]

8. He will NEVER admit his lies.

He is incapable of retracting his lies, the arrogant murderous bastard.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

9. CNN website has news article about it - happend in Atlanta, GA

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/04/rumsfeld.ap/index.html

[rniel]

10. KICKS ASS!! KICKS ASS!! KICKS ASS!!

I LOVED IT

[Robbien]

12. The transcript is a must read

QUESTION: You said you knew where they were.

RUMSFELD: I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were and –

QUESTION: You said you knew where they were Tikrit, Baghdad, northeast, south, west of there. Those are your words.

RUMSFELD: My words — my words were that — no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let him stay one second. Just a second.

QUESTION: This is America.

RUMSFELD: You’re getting plenty of play, sir.

QUESTION: I’d just like an honest answer.

RUMSFELD: I’m giving it to you.

QUESTION: Well we’re talking about lies and your allegation there was bulletproof evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Iraq.

RUMSFELD: Zarqawi was in Baghdad during the prewar period. That is a fact.

QUESTION: Zarqawi? He was in the north of Iraq in a place where Saddam Hussein had no rule. That’s also…

RUMSFELD: He was also in Baghdad.

QUESTION: Yes, when he needed to go to the hospital.

Come on, these people aren’t idiots. They know the story.

What a load of crap.

[CatWoman]

15. he is just as disingenuous as the rest of them

lying prick!!

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Rumsfeld can't stop lying

QUESTION: I’d just like an honest answer.

RUMSFELD: I’m giving it to you.

[lonestarnot]

13. eewww yeyaa baby! Lyin'n mother fucker red rummy!

Caught you try'n to use your lies to splain it all away... didn't work to well did it? bbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :rofl:

[King Coal]

14. Blessed be our CatWoman, for she hath

caughteth thith thtory and thown herthself worthy of our praisth!

:hi:Cat!

[CatWoman]

16. LOL

KC!!

:hi:

[FuzzyDicePHL]

22. Freep response

I peeked into freeperville to see what they were saying, and there's not much going on there... Whereas we've got several threads going on already, with many posts about it, there were only 11 replies to the front-page story in freeperville...

Except, of course, for this very important post by one of them, the finest of conservative minds:

Can anyone post the picture from the article? I'm just wondering who is the absolute dish in front of Rummy?

[Martti]

24. My day has been awful,

but this clip certainly made me smile ;)

Let There Be Justice

[tabasco]

25. I suppose the fawning neophyte club won't be inviting him next year!

Good work Mr. McGovern ! :patriot:

I love seeing these criminals called on their lies.

[leftchick]

26. Was that Ray McGovern?

:loveya:

[Downtown Hound]

27. Hey, a non-reporter doing a reporter's job

Take note media lapdogs, Clobert was right about you.

[redqueen]

28. Hah... as if they didn't know!

They're complicit... every single one of them who has done nothing all this time... all complicit and equally guilty.

[Harper_is_Bush]

30. kicked and recommended.

we need a McGovern avatar!