Rummy: "Am I lying my ass off? You bet!"

[FlashHarry]

God, I love it when he answers questions with questions. Man, Russert may be being civil (unlike he was with Dean), but he's not letting up on Rummy.

[jamesinca]

1. My god he is lying

He just said that the SOTU should not have included the Niger Iraq uranium thing because it relied on foreign intelligence. Yet the U.S. and Britian shared intelligence the whole time to fabricate this war.

He is also saying that the U.K. still believes this to be true.

Russert just put up the reports of the Uranium from different sources thru '02 and Rummy said it was not believeable until 3/7/03 when it was in the news.

[FlashHarry]

3. He also called it "a healthy discussion."

Hilarious.

[RememberJohn]

2. Rummy is losing credibility by the second...

... at least to anyone with any sense of logic.

[sandnsea]

4. How do you know they're lying?

Rummy rants, Condi shakes, Powell puckers, and Cheney hides. Bush just acts normal cuz he is a lie.

[FlashHarry]

5. Rummy's also shaking.

He's wringing his hands and nervously playing with his papers. It's kind of like watching John Daley getting ready for a putt.

[jamesinca]

6. Rummy said no body in the Administration said nuke weapons

Chenney was quoted as saying nuclear weapons, Rummy got real quiet, for a small eternity. I wish I could have read Rummys mind at that moment.

[FlashHarry]

7. Timmy gave him a pass on that one, though.

He offered up that maybe Cheney "misspoke." I'm glad he brought it up, though.

[TheBigGuy]

8. yeah I saw that.

Dead air their for a minute before Rummy replied.

[diamond14]

18. Rice said a "mushroom cloud" was coming to get us....(pic)

here's the cost of OUR crazy atomic weapons program (a little old but it's the ONLY total cost estimates ever made - 1998 - $ 5.5 TRILLION --- way beyond BILLIONS...a thousand billion becomes a trillion (IMHO)...
http://www.brookings.org/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/WEAPONS.HTM



OUR Troops being exposed to MASSIVE RADIATION...
Troops participating in exercises at "Camp Desert Rock" (the Nevada Test Site) observe the formation of a mushroom cloud following the detonation of the Dog test on November 1, 1951. This test involved a 21 kiloton device dropped from a B-50 bomber. The device exploded at a height of 1,417 feet (432 meters).

[DemBones DemBones]

9. "Denial Rumsfeld"

is what my husband just called him. Probably the nicest thing he's been called in this house. :evilgrin:

[jamesinca]

10. Where do you draw the line

Draw the line between pressing for the truth, and getting in their face and being rude and unprofessional?

He just about shook Rummy and had to stop because it was so easy to see Russert could have taken him down with a few more quotes.

Gramm is on now.

[FlashHarry]

11. I guess that's what sets the Fox crowd apart.

O'Reilly, Hannity, et al. would've kept going, had it been a Democratic president.

[newsguyatl]

12. russert is such a wuss!

could he have been ANY more lenient on the bald-faced lying rumsfeld... it's almost if the two were pals putting on a show...

he could have especially had rumsfeld by the balls several times during the interview, but just let the issue (call it lie) slide... the most blatant when he asked rumsfeld why he said he found out about the falsity of the niger document "within days," and rumsfeld said he should have said "few weeks" -- which actually meant, several months... oh really, mr. rumsfeld? you don't know the difference between days and months? hmmm... russert didn't even follow up... NOR did he follow up when he confronted rummy with rummy's claim in march of "we know where they (WMD's) are" when he knew good and damned well he didn't know... he let rummy slide right out of that one... also, talking about n. korea, he let rummy do his spin, and just move right along...

damn, you gotta admit, rumsfeld is damned good at re-wording the question with a question and answering it how he sees fit...

but russert is even better at falling for it...

or was he?

[jamesinca]

13. Graham just said that Tennet tried to have SOTU

edit the commet of Nuclear stuff twice before speech. Said that the administration selected only parts.

[muchacho]

14. monogramed cuffs

Rummy's a slick one. If I want someone to cover my ass for subverting the constitution it's this bastard.

He's talking circles arounf Russert, and Russert is trained aas a LAWYER!!

I just noticed Rummy has monogramed cuffs...makes me dispise im even more.

[jamesinca]

15. I like his answer to the balanced budget and the Bush slam

He did not let Russert cut him off in the slam of Bush. He then said repeal most of the Bush tax cuts that have been given would be a priority and having those off shore accounts pay taxes AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE get rid of the payroll tax and stimulate the economy. Plus this would all be paid for, not put on future generations like the Bush plan does.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Dumbsfeld just denied that he said we knew where the WMDs

were. I remember him saying that he knew where they were, in his usual smug manner.

[jamesinca]

17. Russert even quoted that to him

Rummy did a little revisionist history right there on the spot.