excessively optimistic."
Did he lie?
Dec. 18, 2002 “It (the current situation in Afghanistan) is encouraging. They have elected a government through the Loya Jirga process. The Taliban are gone. The al Qaeda are gone.”
Feb. 7, 2003: “It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
Feb. 20 2003: “‘Do you expect the invasion, if it comes, to be welcomed by the majority of the civilian population of Iraq?’ Jim Lehrer asked the defense secretary on PBS’ The News Hour. ‘There is no question but that they would be welcomed,’ Rumsfeld replied, referring to American forces.
Mar. 30, 2003: “It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
2006-08-03 12:41:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
mike B - they found 500 pounds of degraded, unusuable, 20 year old chemicals - they did not find anything similar to what Rumsfeld claimed. If anyone says they are going to get a job done in 6 months and it takes 3 years, they would be fired long before it got to that point.
2006-08-04 01:25:12 · update #1
Uhhhhh... Kevin? ACCURATE OR NOT EXCESSIVE??? You must be watching a different war.
-Taliban and Al Qaida are well in place in Afghanistan, to this day.
- SIX MONTHS??? SIX FRIGGEN MONTHS????
-Who knows if we have been welcomed by the majority (people believe what they want to on this one), but every survey I have seen says they will be happy when we are gone.
-There were NO WMD's, certainly not working ones, ANYWHERE, much less where he "knew they were."
He was either lying or stupid... or both. When someone is overly optimistic, over and over again, about matters in which they are paid to be accurate, they are either deliberately misleading or grossly incompetent, or both, are they not?
2006-08-03 13:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
so what is wrong with what he said they did elect a government in Afghanistan sound good to me and you never know how long a war will last or what will happened we were welcomed when we invaded i saw it on t.v. i saw people dancing in the streets and hitting pictures of Sodom i herd a Iraqi say god bless Bush but there are people that don't want us to win they are our enemy and we did find WMDS in Iraq it is a fact the military has said it has found at least 500 rounds of chemical and biological weapons and that there are more out there
2006-08-04 02:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only time out of these examples that he seemed excessively optimistic was the length ot time for the war....everything else he has said was accurate, or not excessive. Being encouraged is not optimistic...it is meaning there are signs there are reasons to be optimistic...not as badly as you are attempting to do here
2006-08-03 19:52:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Rummy said "dickens"?
2006-08-03 19:52:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where rummy has been honest...or competent
2006-08-03 19:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stop the press!!!!!!!! Rumsfeld lied???? What else is new?
2006-08-03 21:24:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not whether he lied or not, but you appear to have shown that he "misspoke" many times.
2006-08-03 19:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋