donald rumsfeld quotes

[Dalya]

amazing.

"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty." In an interview with the Washington Post

"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."

"Well, you know, something's neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said."

"As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

[Irock]

Context.



(concepty. ha. I'm detaily.)

[Dalya]

even in contect those sentences don't make sense/nice shakespeare quote that doesn't exist.

[James]

amazing.

"As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

They showed this on TV over here. He was in Iraq fielding questions from the Army/Marines that are there, and this was his response to a soldier asking why they didn't have the equipment they needed to fight the war they are fighting.

I was reading this morning that the Gates guy who took his place is part of the Iraq Study Group that is headed up by James Baker, who was Sec. Of State under Bush 1 and, not surprisingly, has all but come out and said the invasion was a mistake. And according my my politicio friends, they are also the only group that has been actively seeking solutions to the war as opposed to just talking about it.

Now they need to get rid of John Bolton and Dick Cheney, and I think the ship will be back on course...