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The Administration "Re-wronging" history

By: AmeriPundit, Fri Dec 9th, 2005 08:09:09 PM

b>Dick Cheney- November, 2005: "The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone -- but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history..."

Good point.

DoD Transcript excerpt of Sec. Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers on Tuesday, February 10, 2004.

Q: Mr. Secretary, you said in your opening remarks, sir -- you described it as two paths that nations can take, and you noted that Saddam Hussein, had he opened up his country to the U.N. resolutions, there would have been no war.

Rumsfeld: Mm-hmm.

Q: And it intrigues me because about a year ago you said the same thing, he had the choice between war and peace and he had chosen war. If I follow your thought correctly -- and I'm sure you'll tell me if I'm not -- (Laughter.) -- in his case, if he would have opened up the country, let the U.N. come in, the United States come in, whoever, to search for the weapons of mass destruction, he would have still been in power today, correct? Okay. And that would be an acceptable position -- or you chose the word of the "position" -- vis-à-vis no war, Saddam Hussein still in power, with a whole year of us hearing about all the other reasons why it was important to remove him.

Rumsfeld: Mm-hmm. In my view it is -- the world is fortunate, the Iraqi people are fortunate, and the region is fortunate, that he's not there. And I think anyone who has looked at the mass graves and the torture rooms and heard the stories of what took place in that country has to feel the same way.

Was what I said today correct? Yes. There would not have been a war. I mean, that's just a fact, just like -- I mean, what will Libya look like two, four, five years from now...

Oops. Weren't the inspectors were in Iraq. Why did they leave? Oh, right... Saddam kicked them out.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday ordered all U.N. inspectors and support staff, humanitarian workers and U.N. observers along the Iraq-Kuwait border to evacuate Iraq after U.S. threats to launch war. FOX (there are many other sources but FOX was chosen in this venue because...'nuff said- it was all over the media- anybody who can read, see, or hear knows this).

Oops. Anybody? Anybody? Ferris?

"This Week" (November 20, 2005)

Stephanopolous: If you had known that no WMD's would be found, would you still advocate invasion?

Rumsfeld: I didn't advocate invasion.

Stephanopolous: You didn't?

Rumsfeld: No. I wasn't asked. If you read all the books on the thing...

Stephanopolous: You weren't? But why weren't you asked? That's very puzzling.

Rumsfeld: No. I'm sure that the President understood what my views were... but... but... as a technical matter, did he ever look and say, "What should we do- should we do this or not do that"- this is something that the president thought through very carefully.

Stephanopolous: Are you trying to distance yourself on the war with that...

Rumsfeld: Of course not. I agreed completely with the decision to go to war. And I've said that 100 times and don't even suggest that...

Stephanopolous: I'm just asking...

Rumsfeld: Yeah. Well you know better.... uhhh... Look, the interesting thing to me about the pre-war intelligence is clearly it was wrong. It was wrong (inaudible). But everyone saw the same thing in the Executive branch, in the Legislative branch, in the other countries, it was presented at the U.N... uhhh...

Stephanopolous: But would you have been for an invasion if we had known that?

Rumsfeld: If I... I... the answer is probably yes. Our planes were being shot at every day, every week in the no fly zone. Here was a man who was giving $25,000 to the families of suicide killers. Murderers who were doing it. Zarqawi was in that country during that period. He's a person that used chemical weapons against his own people and against his neighbors, had invaded Kuwait...

Hmmm... aren't those the "other reasons" dismissed in 2004?

"That's not the way the world really works anymore... We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do." - To Ron Suskind, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Price of Loyalty by a senior advisor to George Bush

Ohhhh... why didn't they just say so?

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