Friday, December 10, 2004

Rumsfeld follies

It has been a while since a really good Rumsfeldian sentence has surfaced, but this article highlights a beauty. Mr. Rumsfailed is being hounded for his "don't blame me blame physics" excuse, unable to escape pursuit even in India. When he gets his dander up his mouth usually makes poetic speech.

In this case, responding to a US soldier's questions about "hillbilly armor" he said, "I don't know what the facts are, but somebody certainly is going to sit down with him and find out what he knows and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know".

Rumsfeld Responds

How can the Secretary of defense get away with saying "I don't know what the facts are" when soldiers have been raising this issue publicly for three years? Doesn't that admission highlight rather glaring incompetence?

Whatever happened to boots on the ground?

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Foot Quotes

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

Charles Darwin