Kudos to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for doing what so few of his administration colleagues have been willing to do: tell the truth about Saddam Hussein’s non-existent ties to the terrorist attacks of 9\/11.<\/p>\n
At a Pentagon news conference yesterday afternoon, Rumsfeld was asked if he believed Hussein was involved.<\/p>\n
“I’ve not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that,” Rumsfeld said<\/a>. (I think that’s bureaucratic talk for “no.”)<\/p>\n While noting that Hussein was a very bad man who did some very bad things, Rumsfeld concluded, “[O]n that specific one, no, not to my knowledge.”<\/p>\n Finally. After the ongoing shell game being played by most of the administration, Rumsfeld acknowledged that even he doesn’t believe Hussein helped execute the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has hinted at a connection<\/a>, so has Dick Cheney<\/a>, and so has Bush<\/a>. They’re all wrong and have been cynically manipulating our fears and anger.<\/p>\n That’s why I’m so proud of Rummy for having the courage to say that he has no knowledge of any connection. Good for him.<\/p>\n Then again, isn’t this the perfect example of the soft bigotry of low expectations? I mean, is this how far the administration has fallen? A cabinet secretary telling the truth about an obvious fact is now cause for celebration?<\/p>\n Apparently, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kudos to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for doing what so few of his administration colleagues have been willing to do: tell the truth about Saddam Hussein’s non-existent ties to the terrorist attacks of 9\/11. At a Pentagon news conference yesterday afternoon, Rumsfeld was asked if he believed Hussein was involved. “I’ve not seen any indication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}