Sunday, September 16, 2007

Rummy: ‘I Have Not Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’



From Thinkprogress:

In an interview with Fox News last night, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — one of the key architects of the Iraq disaster — was asked whether he currently “pays attention to specifics about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.”

Rumsfeld responded by claiming it’s impossible to follow events when you’re “on the outside.” He then added that he doesn’t have time to follow what’s going on in Iraq because he’s too busy with administrative tasks:
I’ve been very busy doing a series of things: setting up an office and hiring staff, arranging my papers to give to the Library of Congress, setting up a new foundation…

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe he was one of the guys in the background, waving a flag at McCains rebuttal......I mean interupution of bingo.

airJackie said...

He knows he was kicked out by Daddy Bush and his now a has been. He made is money off the fake flu medicine that the White House invested in. I guess Rummy forgot he can't buy his way in heaven. All the young soldiers and innocent Iraq people he let die based on the lies and the greed. He'll get his back 7 fold.

SP Biloxi said...

"I mean interupution of bingo."

Hee hee.. You're bad..

Sigh, I wonder when McCain's budget will get bad enough for him to get Meals on Wheels as snacks on the road.

Anonymous said...

Can you get meals on wheels if you are on wheels?