Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Iraq war: A two-fer from Rummy: Revisionist history and Orwellian language!
And, oh yeah, Bush gave the Saudis "a two-month heads-up that President Bush had decided to invade Iraq." At least the press is starting to report this stuff. The whores have turned, it seems:
Hmmm.... Does "take it to the bank" imply a final decision? Certainly the fundamentalist Promise Keepers think so. Heh.
But Rummy, like everyone else in the maladministration, lives in a world like Humpty Dumpy in Alice in Wonderland: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is", said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is", said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Yep!
The Pentagon deleted from a public transcript a statement Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob Woodward suggesting that the administration gave Saudi Arabia a two-month heads-up that President Bush had decided to invade Iraq.
At issue was a passage in Woodward's "Plan of Attack," an account published this week of Bush's decision making about the war, quoting Rumsfeld as telling Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, in January 2003 that he could "take that to the bank" that the invasion would happen.
The comment came in a key moment in the run-up to the war, when Rumsfeld and other officials were briefing Bandar on a military plan to attack and invade Iraq, and pointing to a top-secret map that showed how the war plan would unfold. The book reports that the meeting with Bandar was held on Jan. 11, 2003, in Vice President Cheney's West Wing office. Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also attended.
Pentagon officials omitted the discussion of the meeting from a transcript of the Woodward interview that they posted on the Defense Department's Web site Monday. Rumsfeld told reporters at a briefing yesterday that he may have used the phrase "take that to the bank" but that no final decision had been made to go to war.
(via WaPo)
Hmmm.... Does "take it to the bank" imply a final decision? Certainly the fundamentalist Promise Keepers think so. Heh.
But Rummy, like everyone else in the maladministration, lives in a world like Humpty Dumpy in Alice in Wonderland: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is", said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is", said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Yep!
