Rumsfeld's forgettery

[Harper_is_Bush]

Rumsfeld's forgettery
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

The following editorial appeared in the Charlotte Observer on Monday, May 8:

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld showed his customary combativeness when speaking in Atlanta on Thursday as an audience member challenged him on his statements about Iraq.

Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who once gave former President Bush his morning intelligence briefings, confronted Rumsfeld about his claim of having "bulletproof" evidence of ties between al-Qaeda and Iraq and his pre-war assertion that he knew weapons of mass destruction were located near Tikrit and Baghdad.

Rumsfeld denied saying "bulletproof" and denied saying he knew where WMDs were. But the news media's quick scan of his past remarks found that McGovern quoted him accurately.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/editorial/14535763.htm

If you STILL haven't seen the video of McGovern causing Rumsfelds "forgettery", check out my sig.

[cliss]

1. Rumsfailed does this all the time.

I've listened to him give testimony in congressional hearings, and other events. Whenever there is something wrong, he always says, "I can't recall...." or "not to my knowledge", or, "not to my recollection", "not in this lifetime".

Rumsfailed is in fact smarter than that. Now, for sure he is a failure as far as running the Pentagon, but he remembers FAR more than he lets on. He just absolves himself by saying, "Gee gosh golly I don't remember".

[Harper_is_Bush]

2. Yep. In this case he out-and-out denied it

His forgettory was absolute this time. None of that "not to my recollection" BS he usually covers his ass with, he definitively said he never said we knew where the WMD's were and McGovern pointed out that he had.

[genieroze]

3. Rummy and the whole neocon ilk have selective memory loss.