[Rhodes22-list] Rumsfeld Apologizes

[brad haslett]

May 26, 2003 
Rumsfeld Apologizes for Hyping Saddam Threat 
(2003-05-26) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld apologized to Senate Democrats today for
pre-war "hyping" of the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein's regime. 

"I'm sorry Senators Biden, Rockefeller, Byrd, Roberts
and others," said a contrite Mr. Rumsfeld. "We
overestimated the threat posed by a lunatic dictator,
who hated the U.S. and Israel, and who paid rewards to
families of Palestinian terrorists. In an age when two
of the world's tallest buildings can be brought down
with tools used by the stockboy at K-Mart, we should
have demanded more concrete evidence of exotic weapons
of mass destruction. Saddam was helpless as a kitten
up a tree."

Sen. Rockefeller, D-WV, said Congress must determine
whether the administration "intentionally
overestimated" Iraq's weapons program, or "just
misread it. ... In either case it's a very bad
outcome."

Mr. Rumsfeld agreed, "What an awful outcome. We deeply
regret freeing the Iraqi people from a murderous gang
of thugs masquerading in the United Nations as a
representative republic. We're sorry that the Iraqi
people have discovered thousands of graves of their
Saddam-murdered relatives. It's none of our business
if people want to live like that."




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