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More Rumsfeld: Ran out of

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More Rumsfeld
: Ran out of space in the ongoing live blogging… so a new post..

: “Terrorists are going to school on us just as we are going to school on the terrorists,” he says, answering a question about the quality of training. Times change, he says. He was Reagan’s Middle East adviser when our barracks were attacked by a car bomb. Up went barriers. So the terrorists started using RPGs.

: He says our tremendous success as a nation is based on trust but that is also what makes us terribly vulnerable. He says we want to win without “giving up the thing that makes our country so special: that is to say, trust.”

: He says he gets CDs of a woman with an operatic voice singing his press conferences.

: Arthur Sulzberger was standing up to ask a question but it ended first. Damn.

2 responses to “More Rumsfeld: Ran out of”

  1. Ebb Tide Avatar
    Ebb Tide

    Jeannie Moost (sp?) on CNN did a pkg on that recently, 2 people wrote songs about Rumsfeld’s press conferences, his careful choice of words seems to tickle some people, from what I remember the songs quoted his comments about the “unknown knowns” or something…. “the knowns, the unknowns, the unknown knowns.”
    ::::shrugs:::::
    I’m not in the CIA don’t ask me.
    Personally my favority press conference of his was when he and some press guy quibbled over dictionary definitions of “quagmire.” It was all in good humor, but still, it is weird, you have to admit.
    In 20 some years we’ll have the Rumsfeld equivilent of the McNammara “Fog of War” no doubt. Althought they may be the same guy, you never see them in a room together.
    ( I am joking people, no hate mail.)

  2. JD Lasica Avatar
    JD Lasica

    Minor point, but in two items today you’ve referred to the NY Times’ Arthur Salzburger. It’s Sulzberger. :~)
    Riveting blogging here, Jeff, congrats.