So, exactly what are you saying Defense Secy Rumsfeld?-VIDEO

[Alexandra]

[found on another forum]



Here is a great video of Rumsfeld on CBS's Face The Nation caught in a lie... (1 minute 16 seconds)

http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/ ... F2E06E03%7 d/RUMSFELDDENY4.WMV

TEXT:



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SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, though, granted all of that is true, why then did they pose an immediate threat to us, to this country?

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you're the--you and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase `immediate threat.' I didn't. The president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's--that's what's happened. The president went...

SCHIEFFER: You're saying that nobody in the administration said that.

Sec. RUMSFELD: I--I can't speak for nobody--everybody in the administration and say nobody said that.

SCHIEFFER: Vice president didn't say that? The...

Sec. RUMSFELD: Not--if--if you have any citations, I'd like to see 'em.

Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one here. It says `some have argued that the nu'--this is you speaking--`that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: And--and...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: It was close to imminent.

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, I've--I've tried to be precise, and I've tried to be accurate. I'm s-- suppose I've...

Mr. FRIEDMAN: `No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.'

Sec. RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. It--my view of--of the situation was that he--he had--we--we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that--that we believed and we still do not know--we will know.

[Alexandra]

This is from the UK . . . seems Bush is using fake applause to get himself re-elected (didn't Saddam use to do this?) . . .

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/ ... 34,00.html

To prevent another appointed president, law students accross the country plan to make sure every eligible voter gets to vote when they show up on election day . . .

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0 ... %2C00.html

[Jamie Ann]

     If you are having trouble getting the link to work, as I did originally, click this one. Thanks, Alexandra.

[Alexandra]

umm . . . what link would that be?

[CJ]

You're a card, Julie! Really!

Alexandra,

Where's the Rumsfeld video? I can't find it.

Jamie Ann,

Can you post the link you mention? Thanks.

Love,
CJ

[Lorna]

LOL!!! (..)

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "what a marroon!"

[Jamie Ann]

Hi everyone,

     Opps, I responded to the request to repost the link, but I somehow put it into a new thread. I did not mean to start that new thread — I must have somehow gotten out of this one before clicking on the “submit” button. If you are having trouble getting the link to work, as I did originally, click this one. (The maroon type is the link — Lorna’s hint about maroon was on target!) Thanks again, Alexandra, for a very revealing Rumsfeld interview!

     Listen carefully for this dialog:

BOB SCHIEFFER: If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, ... why then did they pose an immediate threat to us, to this country?

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Well, ... you and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase “immediate threat.” I didn’t. The president didn’t.

FRIEDMAN (quoting Rumsfeld): “No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”

[Beauty]

LOL!!! (..)

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "what a marroon!"

I actually heard it being said!

[CJ]

Sure, Julie. Why not?



Love,
CJ