Stephen Colbert makes Donald Rumsfeld squirm about Iraq
Last edited Tue Jan 26, 2016, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Colbert was brilliant!
Stephen Colbert makes Donald Rumsfeld squirm until he nearly admits Iraq war was a mistake
Stephen Colbert grilled Donald Rumsfeld over the decisions — and dishonesty — that pushed the United States into the disastrous war in Iraq.
The “Late Show” host said he thought it was unfair to ask Rumsfeld and other former Bush administration officials if they would invade Iraq if they knew then what they know now about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
“You only knew then what you knew then, (and) you only know now what you know now,” Colbert said. “Our now is tomorrow’s then.”
Rumsfeld seemed relieved that he would not ask that, but Colbert still made the former Secretary of Defense squirm with an arguably tougher question.
He brought up Rumsfeld’s most famous saying, about uncertainty in the world: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Colbert suggested a fourth option: “the unknown knowns — which (are) the things that we know, and then we choose not to know them or not let other people know we know.”
The audience laughed — but they began to applaud as Rumsfeld seemed to realize he was not about to be let off the hook, after all.
cont'd -
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/stephen-colbert-makes-donald-rumsfeld-squirm-until-he-nearly-admits-iraq-war-was-a-mistake/
--------------- Also this story in Politico
What Donald Rumsfeld Knew We Didn’t Know About Iraq
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/iraq-war-wmds-donald-rumsfeld-new-report-213530#ixzz3yMyZVzx0
The Youtube video below is just the introductory conversation. Click on this Late Show Link to
see the rest:
http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/5935FB33-D9CE-F17C-62DC-7B792BF94635/stephen-gets-a-straight-answer-out-of-donald-rumsfeld/
= new reply since forum marked as read
