On the eve of 9/11, our own Secrety of Defense seems unable to tell the difference between Saddam Hussein, who didn’t attack America, and Osama bin Laden who killed at least 3000 on American soil…
Among other things, Rumsfeld talked about the world just before the Sept. 11 attacks, whose third anniversary is today. In Afghanistan, he told the National Press Club, “the leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, Masoud, lay dead, his murder ordered by Saddam Hussein, by Osama bin Laden, Taliban’s co-conspirator.”
Ahmed Shah Masoud, who opposed the ruling Taliban, was killed by suspected Al Qaeda operatives — not Hussein — two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Later, Rumsfeld said, “Saddam Hussein, if he’s alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying to not get caught. And we’ve not seen him on a video since 2001.”
Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq; Bin Laden has not been found.
Apparently Rummy not only skipped the “understand your enemy” part of war school, he must have been absent for the “know WHO your enemy actually is” lesson as well!
Or perhaps it’s as BRAD BLOG tipster, Alexi put it: “Must be something in the water over at the White House”. Apparently.
Incredible. If you find video of this, please be sure to add it. I’d like to see if his ‘slips’ were intentional or not. Either way, just awful.
Are you kidding me with this? This SERIOUSLY happened?! And nobody on the left finds this the least bit strange?
Johanna, I think everyone on the left finds this very strange. Unfortunately they’re not in much position to say so. Liberal media, my foot.
The video is at:
http://www.connectlive.com/even...3-rumsfeld.ram
It’s the full hour. I think the quotes come at the q&a at the end. Haven’t viewed the whole thing yet.
Whoops! The link above is from Sep 10 2003! Missed it by one year! This speech was from Sep 10, 2004 🙂
I’ll keep looking for the correct one!
However at 9:30 of the above clip, there’s a good protestor which is followed by Rummy telling us how well things are going now in Iraq! Nice try, Rummy!