[lbo-talk] A truly bizarre and pathetic exchange

boddi satva lbo.boddi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 16:45:05 PST 2005


I don't even inderstand what Rumsfeld was trying to do here (He was on with Stephanopoulos this Sunday):

"STEPHANOPOULOS: If you had known that no weapons of mass destruction would be found, would you have advocated invasion?

RUMSFELD: I didn't advocate invasion.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't?

RUMSFELD: No, I wasn't asked. If you read all the books and the things —

STEPHANOPOULOS: Why weren't you asked? That's very puzzling.

RUMSFELD: Well, I'm sure the president understood what my views were. But as a technical matter, did he ever look and say, "What should we do? Should we go do this or not do that?" This something the president thought through very carefully.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you trying to distance yourself from the war with that –

RUMSFELD: Of course not. Of course not. I agreed completely with the decision to go to war and said that a hundred times. And don't — don't even suggest that.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm just asking.

RUMSFELD: Well, you know better."

As the kids say,: "WTF?"



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