Rumsfeld retreats, disclaims earlier rhetoric

[reprehensor]

http://www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20031109%2FNEWS%2F211090375%2F1003

In the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces would be welcomed by the Iraqi citizenry and that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.

Now, after both statements have been shown to be either incorrect or vastly exaggerated, Rumsfeld - with the same trademark confidence that he exuded before the war - is denying that he ever made such assertions.

In recent testy exchanges with reporters, Rumsfeld interrupted the questioners and attacked the premise of the questions if they dealt with his pre-war comments about weapons of mass destruction and Americans-as-liberators.

For example, on Feb. 20, a month before the invasion, Rumsfeld fielded a question about whether Americans would be greeted as liberators if they invaded Iraq.

[grannylib]

1. These arrogant sacks of excrement....

Do these people really think that there is no proof of their words and actions in this day and age of video/audio technology and all that??
I am sure that if he were shown the tape of himself making those statements he would probably claim they were altered in some way to make it appear that he said those things... and it is probably Clinton's fault as usual...
God, these people make me physically ill...