What David Kay said and what they report - Page 3

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:

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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.

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

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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.

03-15-2004, 09:40 AM	#31
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Bush usually gets the rap for mangling English, but sometimes Rumsfeld shows him up. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

03-18-2004, 12:26 PM	#35
headsplice Relaxed Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 676	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. __________________ Don't Panic

03-15-2004, 01:30 PM	#32
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	"There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns..."

03-15-2004, 09:39 PM	#34
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Yogi Berra for President. Could we do any worse than we are doing better?

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