Wednesday, August 24, 2005
At Least He Didn't Say "Continue to Know"
From yesterday's "Defense Department Regular Briefing":
Q: If the Iraqis push through a constitution over the objections of the Sunnis, do you believe that that will adversely affect the insurgency -- I mean increase the insurgency, if it's pushed through as is while these objections of the Sunni bloc --Presumably this is a level above the certainty with which the Secretary of Defense knew precisely where WMDs would be found.
SEC. RUMSFELD: I don't do those hypotheticals, Brett. Why should I -- what if this, what if that, what if this, what if that. Why should I do that? We're going to know. We're going to know precisely what's going to happen.
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