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Via This Modern World:He's either a complete liar or he's completely senile. Either way, he should resign tomorrow. This is just outrageous. WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he did not recall British Prime Minister Tony Blair's pre-war claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to be deployed in 45 minutes. "I don't remember the statement being made, to be perfectly honest," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon news conference. General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he didn't remember the statement either. The claim made headlines around the world after Blair leveled it in a 55-page "white paper" presented to the House of Commons in September 2002. I can't even begin to express my astonishment. And then there's this:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked about Tuesday's car bombing in Iraq that killed about 50 people, said there are murders in every major city in the world "because human beings are human beings."
...afterthought: I wonder if Rumsfeld remembers Bush making the 45-minute claim? The White House, in the run-up to war in Iraq, did not seek CIA approval before charging that Saddam Hussein could launch a biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes, administration officials now say. The claim, which has since been discredited, was made twice by President Bush, in a September Rose Garden appearance after meeting with lawmakers and in a Saturday radio address the same week. Bush attributed the claim to the British government, but in a "Global Message" issued Sept. 26 and still on the White House Web site, the White House claimed, without attribution, that Iraq "could launch a biological or chemical attack 45 minutes after the order is given."
This whole thing just makes me wonder, honestly, about the sanity of these folks, but more than that, it makes me wonder about the intelligence and memory of our own people. Not only do they lie to us directly about things we don't know, but then they go and lie to us directly about things we do know, for certain. These words are in the papers, Mr. Rumsfeld. They aren't classified documents that you can prance around yelling "you can't see them you can't see them" like some 6-year old girl talking about her underwear. Sir, not ALL of the American public is that moronic. However, I'm starting to question the majority more than usual.
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