from Donald Rumsfeld's February 2005 Senate Armed Services Committee testimony on funding and installing a missile defense system

Sen. Clinton: It strikes me as a little odd that we would deploy a system that hasn't succeeded and expect that to serve a deterrent value.

Sec. Rumsfeld: If you didn't do anything until you could do everything, you probably wouldn't do anything.

and here's a bunch of stuff on missile defense


plus more recent rumdum:

Defending Rumsfeld, Novak cherry-picked from Sen. Clinton's list of past "rosy picture" statements