Rumsfeld: No, My Iraq Comments Were Not ‘Anti-Bush’

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses Islamic State on "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren."
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld clarified on Wednesday that his remarks about Iraq given to a British newspaper last week were not “anti-Bush.”

“The implication that that statement was anti-Bush is ridiculous,” he told CNN on Tuesday.

The man who oversaw the invasion of Iraq in 2003 told the Times of London on Friday that “the idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic.”

“I was concerned about it when I first heard those words,” Rumsfeld said.

“I’m not one who thinks that our particular template of democracy is appropriate for other countries at every moment of their histories,” he added.

On Tuesday, Rumsfeld elaborated on his remarks in the interview with CNN:

When we went in, my view — and I thought it was a broadly held view — was that the goal was to have Saddam Hussein not be there, and to have what replaced Saddam Hussein be a government that would not have weapons of mass destruction, that would not invade its neighbors, and that would be reasonably respectful of diverse ethnic groups — meaning the Sunni, the Shia, the Kurds …

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  1. No, Rumsfeld was trying desperately to “Blame Obama” for Iraq and avoid taking one iota of blame for himself all the while lying through his teeth!

  2. Die!

    That is all.

  3. In other words the neocons really didn’t care about Iraq because it was all about oil and Israel.

  4. Rummy should be happy to avoid Hastert’s courthouse scrum but I do understand his whine after all he came to the interview with the brain he has not the brain his fluffers hoped he had. You know, you compromise your principles at an early age, kiss the most disgusting. pimply ass imaginable and instead of being pampered from one corporate board to another amid bought and paid for cries of genius someone stops the merry-go-round with a few pesky, henny penny facts and suddenly you’re a bad guy instead of a loveable Earth shoe-wearing curmudgeon. Well, gosh darnit!

  5. I wonder if anyone in that admin knew the definition of morals or ethics…cause if they did they got a hold to a completely different dictionary than I had …must have been published by the same people that publishes anything Mann coulter writes

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