Kucinich v. Rumsfeld

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich took full advantage of the opportunity to question grill former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today at a hearing on the questionable circumstances surrounding Pat Tillman's death. Rumsfeld is one slippery character, but I liked this exchange:

"Was there a Department of Defense press strategy with respect to the war?" the Ohio Democrat asked.




"If there was, it obviously wasn't very good," Rumsfeld quipped back.




The Rumsfeld remark drew Kucinich's ire.




"Well you know maybe it was very good because you actually covered up the Tillman case for awhile, you covered up the Jessica Lynch case, you covered up Abu Ghraib, so something was working for you," he said. "So something was working for you."

Raw Story has the video. It's about 6 minutes.




We haven't had Rummy to kick around for a while. Remember "The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld"?


The Unknown

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.


—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing