Word: rumsfeldism
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...start the book with the famous Donald Rumsfeld quote about known knowns and unknown unknowns...
...What Rumsfeld said on that occasion was so bizarre. There's almost a strange poetry to his prevarications. They're so amazing. You can listen to him all day, because he's so detached from any kind of reality as you or I might see it. I have no idea what he's talking about half the time; I don't think that he does, either. It's sort of this weird free association that he does. I thought it was a very telling quote about things in our world today...
Although I have always felt that President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are bad for the U.S. and the world, your article actually made me feel a bit of respect for some of their policies. The interrogation you described involved only disrespect to Mohammed al-Qahtani's personal dignity. That man is not an innocent Iraqi being dragged around Abu Ghraib on a leash. He is suspected of being the so-called 20th hijacker on Sept. 11, 2001. If he had had his way, United Airlines Flight 93 would have plummeted into the White House...
...baseball, it's three strikes, you're out. What is it for the Secretary of Defense?" U.S. SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, questioning Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a Senate hearing on the Iraq war about the "series of gross errors and mistakes" made on his watch...
...Senator, I've offered my resignation to the President twice, and he has decided that he would prefer that he not accept it, and that's his call." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, responding to Senator Edward Kennedy's call for his resignation...