Donald Rumsfeld claims not to recall Tony Blair’s claim that Iraq could deploy WMDs within 45 minutes. Stunning. If, like Donald, you missed it, the claim that Iraq could deploy its deadly WMDs within 45 minutes appears FOUR times in the UK Dossier on Iraq, including Tony Blair’s FOREWORD. I mean really. Give us a break.
Rumsfeld expects us to believe either that 1) he didn’t even read the foreword to a intelligence dossier produced by our closest ally regarding the specific nature of the purported threat posed by a nation we were considering going to war with!? or 2) that despite the careful study of the dossier he made, as befits his job as Secretary of Defense, he now, only a year later, has no recollection of a key claim made in that dossier about the specific nature of the purported threat posed by Iraq!? That’s absurd!
In either case, he deserves to lose his job. If the first option above is true and Rumsfeld likes to play ostrich, then he should be impeached, fired, and charged criminally for gross dereliction of duty. If instead, his memory is that bad, then he must also be fired for not having the requisite competence that the job requires during a time of war. I mean really. If this is true then Rumsfeld may have also forgotten that we have troops in Afghanistan! We sent them there well OVER a year ago, which we’ve learned is beyond his memory’s capacity. No wonder troops are complaining about their longer than usual tours of duty! The Secretary of Defense has forgotten what he did with them!
Now, I wrote the last few sentences as a joke, but I’m sad to report that it’s actually true! This article reports about a Florida unit that kept having its return delayed. When concerned family members called to inquire about their return, they were told that the troops were already back in Florida! Of course it turns out, as the family members already knew, the troops were still in Baghdad! The article actually says, “It seems the mix-up came from the upper levels of the Department of Defense.” Upper levels, huh? They asked Rummy!!!
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