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Happy Monkey 03-15-2004 09:40 AM

Bush usually gets the rap for mangling English, but sometimes Rumsfeld shows him up.

elSicomoro 03-15-2004 01:30 PM

"There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns..."

Happy Monkey 03-15-2004 01:41 PM

At least that one parsed as English. It was a meaningless tautology, but the sentence was diagrammable. This, however:
Quote:

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.
:confused: :whofart:

tw 03-15-2004 09:39 PM

Yogi Berra for President.

Could we do any worse than we are doing better?

headsplice 03-18-2004 12:26 PM

Let's assume for a minute that Iraq has tons and tons and tons of nuke/nio/chem weapons hidden in a giant fortress under the desert sands of Iraq.
Why did we invade if we still haven't found said fortress (or whatever)? There were UN inspectors on the ground. Why not support them with a division of special forces types, rather than a full-scale invasion? Or, why not wait until there was international support for the whole magilla?
There were lots of options, and only one was taken. Only one outcome was seriously planned for. We have blown all of the international goodwill we accrued as a result of 9/11. That's drastic strategic mismanagement and is not something that I want from the leader of my country and his cabinet.
Of course, he isn't much better than lots of top-level managers these days, but that's another thread entirely.

Griff 03-18-2004 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by headsplice
... That's drastic strategic mismanagement and is not something that I want from the leader of my country and his cabinet.
Of course, he isn't much better than lots of top-level managers these days, but that's another thread entirely.

I think you're violating tw's copyright here.


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