 | "Private media does not get up in the morning and say what can we do to promote the values and ideas that the free Western nations believe in? It gets up in the morning and says they’re going to try to make money by selling whatever they sell… The way they decided to do that is to be dramatic and if it bleeds it leads is the common statement in the media today. They’ve got their job, and they have to do that, and that’s what they do." -Donald Rumsfeld "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." -Donald Rumsfeld |
The assertion of a connection with the organization that perpetrated the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil provided a secondary rational for the invasion.
But on Oct. 4, 2004, Rumsfeld revised his assertion, telling the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
If Mr. Santayana is right then let us never forget Donald Rumsfeld!
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Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 27, 2002 at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
