Rumsfeld’s Amnesia: ‘I’ve Avoided Predicting The Timing’ of Withdrawal

kpete

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Thu Mar-23-06 03:10 PM
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Rumsfeld’s Amnesia: ‘I’ve Avoided Predicting The Timing’ of Withdrawal

Rumsfeld’s Amnesia: ‘I’ve Avoided Predicting The Timing’ of Withdrawal From Iraq

Rumsfeld Now:

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declined to predict on Thursday when U.S. forces would completely leave Iraq, a decision President Bush has said would be up to a future U.S. president and a future Iraqi government. “I’ve avoided predicting the timing,” Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon.

Rumsfeld Then:

The Gulf War in the 1990s lasted five days on the ground. I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that. <11/14/02>

It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. <2/7/03>

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/23/rumsfelds-amnesia-ive-avoided-predicting-the-timing-of-withdrawal-from-iraq/

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Thu Mar-23-06 03:11 PM
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1. I'm sending this to my husband

He quotes the five days, five months, but not five years statement all the time, and he needed a source. Thanks!

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cliss

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Thu Mar-23-06 03:15 PM
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2. Rumsfailed thinks he's so smooth....

such a brilliant orator that nobody can figure him out. "Enigma", they say, or "a real diplomat man" by never really saying anything.

He hedges, he changes his statments, lies, fudges, changes the quote, gives a very definite "maybe" and we're off to the races.

He thinks the average American doesn't remember anything but by God

We do here at the DU.

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RazzleDazzle

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Thu Mar-23-06 04:47 PM
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4. Hah! We not only REMEMBER, we can pull up cites!!

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BikeWriter

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Thu Mar-23-06 03:39 PM
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3. Lying son of a bitch!

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