September 10, 2003
JIM LEHRER: Let's cut to the crunch on this question. If in fact this team does not find any weapons of mass destruction, do you believe that would do serious harm to the credibility of the president and this administration and particularly on the...in the long run and when history looks back on this?
DONALD RUMSFELD: I mean, the intelligence that our country had—has—was over a sustained period of time, it was validated by other intelligence services. I have to believe it was reasonably correct—obviously not perfect. No intelligence is ever perfect. And that as the reports come out, they will find evidence of the kinds of programs that Secretary Powell presented to the United Nations. That's my...yes, I mean that's what I believe.
LEHRER: But if they don't? Is that a problem?
RUMSFELD: I don't do hypotheticals.
8 hours ago
Well, thankfully, the arrogant Rumsfeld got his as far as History is concerned. He doesn't do "hypotheticals"? What a ridiculous assertion in this context. It was all hypothetical, and they were dead ass wrong... but he'll never come clean on that. And I love how he throws the duped Colin Powell into the mix, to try and add an aura of sincerity of conviction to the argument, when we all know that Powell was lied to by the intelligence community. Fortunately for us, History will parse out all of this, and we'll see what a myopic, arrogant SecDef this man really was. And he brought it all on himself - no sympathy deserved.
ReplyDeleteu got it, bub.
ReplyDeletebut i think powell was duped more by the WH than the IC.