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OfflineZahid
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Rumsfeld makes ass of self
    #2063721 - 11/01/03 08:32 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Flag blunder embarrasses Pentagon

Simon Jeffery and agencies
Friday October 31, 2003



Donald Rumsfeld confused Iraq with Afghanistan yesterday. Photo: Reuters

As the headquarters of the US department of defence, the Pentagon can boast close to 500,000 employees in more than 140 nations but today it saw attention drawn to its second mix up over countries in a week.

Shortly after the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, confused Afghanistan with Iraq at a news conference, the US embassy in Bucharest had to apologise to the president of Romania, Ion Iliescu, for the Pentagon decorating his table with a Russian flag when he lunched with Mr Rumsfeld earlier this week.

"It was an unfortunate and embarrassing mistake. Sometimes mistakes happen, but no disrespect was intended," it said in a statement.

Scheduled to join Nato in May next year and a member of the US-led coalition of the willing in Iraq, Romania is one of Washington's firmest European allies but in the past it was in Moscow's orbit.

Romania's influential Evenimentul Zilei newspaper poked fun at the mistake. Alongside a photograph of the lunch, clearly showing Russian and US flags intertwined in the space between Mr Rumsfeld and Mr Iliescu, ran the headline "Memories are coming back to haunt me", the Associated Press reported.

Romanian officials moved quickly to play down the incident. "I don't believe that anyone can imagine that Mr Rumsfeld doesn't know who he is meeting," Mr Iliescu's spokeswoman told reporters.

In yesterday's gaffe, Mr Rumsfeld answered a question from a journalist on warlords in Afghanistan by talking about Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq until it was pointed out that that was a different country.

"Oh, I'm sorry ... I was thinking of Iraq. No wonder I couldn't understand it," he explained.

He did however concede with a chuckle that the two countries were "close".

Mr Rumsfeld was also forced to admit at the same briefing that he was unsure whether he had lost his mojo, largely because he did not know what it was.

An article in Time magazine headed "Is Rumsfeld losing his mojo?" had suggested that he might be. The defence secretary said he had consulted an aide who told him that in "in 1926 or something, it had to do with jazz music."

Mr Rumsfeld's Pentagon press briefing

Extracted from the website of the US department of defence.

Journalist: Do you think that warlordism is something that should be factored into Afghanistan?

Rumsfeld: Well, I don't know quite what it means in this case. If you're talking about militias existing in the country, clearly, militias have existed in parts of that country, not least of which are the Kurdish peshmerga forces. And other elements have had militias...

Journalist: Sir ...

Rumsfeld: Just a minute.

Journalist: Afghanistan, sir, not Iraq.

Rumsfeld: Oh, I'm sorry. Go to Afghanistan. I'm sorry. I was thinking of Iraq. No wonder I couldn't understand it.

Journalist: I thought you might ...

Rumsfeld: I'm sorry. Yeah, I had the wrong country.

Journalist: They're close!

Rumsfeld: Yes, they are. (Chuckles)

Me: What a fucking idiot.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063727 - 11/01/03 08:34 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

I want to see his tard ass given a blank world map and fill in the countries.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063739 - 11/01/03 08:40 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Moot is a funny sounding word if you say it enough times.



Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,
Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,
Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,


Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,
Moot, Moot,


Moot,


Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,
Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot, Moot,


So is petty.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063746 - 11/01/03 08:44 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Rumsfeld: Oh, I'm sorry. Go to Afghanistan. I'm sorry. I was thinking of Iraq. No wonder I couldn't understand it.

Lol!

It sounds like he's a computer program or something.

Oh, I'm sorry. Go to Afghanistan.

Like he needs to order his thoughts to that subject. Or maybe he's got a computer database liked up to him somehow and he was reading from the wrong section :smirk:


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063753 - 11/01/03 08:49 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

God forbid he could have heard him incorrectly and assumed he was talking about iraqi since it was the most recent incident.

I bet you popped a boner when you read that didnt you....


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2063754 - 11/01/03 08:50 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Don't say it if it makes you laugh, then. Problem solved.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: d33p]
    #2063757 - 11/01/03 08:51 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Popped a boner?

Frankly, it shows how little the people of these countries mean to him.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063761 - 11/01/03 08:54 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Beacuse he didnt hear a word correctly it shows he doesnt care about the people?

Wow, i guess deaf people hate everyone.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: d33p]
    #2063792 - 11/01/03 09:13 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

I'd say the wrong-flag incident was the bigger blunder.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063793 - 11/01/03 09:14 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Rumsfeld can't make an ass of himself because he already is an ass.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: trendal]
    #2063799 - 11/01/03 09:15 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

I'm not a fan of Rumsfeld by any means, but it seems kinda petty to bag him for making a mistake that any one of our stoned asses could have made.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: trendal]
    #2063802 - 11/01/03 09:16 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Did rumsfeld lay out the flags? No

So what are you talking about. Who the hell knows why someone put out the wrong flag. For all you know it was some person who got to be where they are due to AA.


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: silversoul7]
    #2063804 - 11/01/03 09:16 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

You got me there. :wink: 


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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: Zahid]
    #2063860 - 11/01/03 09:43 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

What do you expect?  I mean, half of the current students in our highschools dont know where any countries outside of Canada, Mexico and the US are on a map.

You expect more from a government leader that helps to shape world policy?  I mean, even though he has only been dealing with this shit for what, 40 years now....How silly.

All that matters are the snappy poems he writes.

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Re: Rumsfeld makes ass of self [Re: PsiloKitten]
    #2063944 - 11/01/03 10:39 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

This isn't the first time he's gotten those two countries mixed up.





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