Rumsfeld: It ‘Has Got To Be Embarrassing’ To Get Intelligence Wrong - Polidicks

[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/02/941331/rumsfeld-susan-rice-embarrassing-libya/"]Think Progress[/URL] [QUOTE]Former Defense Secretary [URL="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/rumsfeld_donald"]Donald Rumsfeld[/URL] — famous for pushing the United States into a costly war in Iraq based on wildly false intelligence — criticized U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice for being wrong about what caused the recent attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.Rice had said that the anti-Islam video that sparked protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was also the catalyst for the Libya attack, an assessment that the Obama administration soon after acknowledged was not correct. Without any hint of irony, Rumsfeld said last night on Fox News that he was amazed that she could be so wrong, adding, that “has got to be embarrassing”: RUMSFELD: I watched the presentation, and [B]I thought it was amazing that someone in her position would go on with that degree of certainty, that fast and that authoritatively and be that wrong[/B]. VAN SUSTEREN: Do you think she was perhaps hung out to dry? Because I thought it was unusual that the ambassador of the U.N. would be making that appearance right after that event. I would have expected some other member of the administration, not the ambassador to the U.N. RUMSFELD: I agree. It would have been more likely that someone from the cabinet or the White House staff or the NSC staff might have said something. It may very well be that she was already scheduled and they just used her. [B]But her — her presentation was demonstrated to be inaccurate within a matter of hours, which has got to be embarrassing.[/B] Watch the clip: [/QUOTE] [video=youtube;WtFgohT40Js]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtFgohT40Js&[/video] [QUOTE] The war in Iraq did come up later in the segment, however, Rumsfeld never expressed any embarrassment about how wrong he was about it. “I think that each country is considerably better off by not having the Taliban in Afghanistan and not having the “butcher of Baghdad,” Saddam Hussein, in Iraq,” he said. “The countries have been given an opportunity to have a freer political system and a freer economic system.”[/QUOTE] I guess rummy would know how it feels better than anyone else.

After doing what he did post-9/11, you'd think Rumsfeld would keep his mouth shut about US foreign policy. Him criticizing others on foreign policy mistakes is like OJ writing his "If I did it" book. Look, you already got away with the crime of the century, keep your head down, lay low you dummy. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2DKzastu8[/media] And yes, of course Susan Rice got the reasons behind the incident wrong. Nobody would believe her if she said the kind of stuff Wesley Clark says about what's happening in the region. For some reason, it's much more socially acceptable to say that they dislike us because of an offensive video or for religious reasons, rather than the real reason, that we've been over there for decades destabilizing or destroying governments and causing unrest in the region so that our military industrial complex can profit from it.

Further proof that conservatives are born and live with a genetic defect that causes them to be unable to process irony.

Look who's talking you gigantic piece of [B]SHIT.[/B]

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