DH Rumsfeld

[Moochy]

Not only is he a fighting the war on terror, he's a mighty fine poet too..

http://dek.cwru.edu/raznoe/politics/poetry-from-Rumsfeld-speeches_Slate.pdf

The Unknown (from February 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing)

As we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don't know

We don't know.

[shockingelk]

1. it's a fun pastime

what happened,
basically,
was the war was fought in this area,
and to some extent up there,
but not in this area.

And that area collapsed.
And those people disappeared.

So there were too few of the Ba'athists
and the Saddam Hussein enforcers
that were captured or killed

in that area.

http://www.pentagon.gov/transcripts/2003/tr20030618-secdef0282.html

[bobthedrummer]

2. Then there's Rumsfeld's "Message to the People of Iraq"

a masterpiece

http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2003/tr20030430-secdef0138.html

Then there's Rumsfeld the traitor
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/index.htm

http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/hidden/teicher.htm

[Moochy]

3. Aziz didnt like Rumsfeld's prose

fromt the teicher document:

My name is Howard Teicher. From 1977 to 1987, I served in the United States government as a member of the national security bureaucracy. From early 1982 to 1987, I served as a Staff Member to the United States National Security Council.


10. The United States was anxious to have other countries supply assistance to Iraq. For example, in 1984, the Israelis concluded that Iran was more dangerous than Iraq to Israel's existence due to the growing Iranian influence and presence in Lebanon. The Israelis approached the United States in a meeting in Jerusalem that I attended with Donald Rumsfeld. Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir asked Rumsfeld if the United States would deliver a secret offer of Israeli assistance to Iraq. The United States agreed. I travelled wtih Rumsfeld to Baghdad and was present at the meeting in which Rumsfeld told Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz about Israel's offer of assistance. Aziz refused even to accept the Israelis' letter to Hussein offering assistance, because Aziz told us that he would be executed on the spot by Hussein if he did so.