Monday, June 27, 2005
Bush Admin RhetIraq: Sec. Rumsfeld
Who: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Source: Meet The Press
Quotes:
RUMSFELD: ... I presented the president a list of about 15 things that could go terribly, terribly wrong before the war started. And the fact that the oil fields could have been set aflame like they were in Kuwait, the fact that we could have had mass refugees and dislocations and it didn't happen. The bridges could have been blown up. There could have been a fortress Baghdad where the moat around it with oil in it and people fighting to the death. ...
MR. RUSSERT: Was a robust insurgency on your list that you gave the president?
SEC'Y RUMSFELD: I don't remember whether that was on there, but certainly it was discussed the possibility that you could have dead-enders who would fight. ...
Source: Meet The Press
Quotes:
RUMSFELD: ... I presented the president a list of about 15 things that could go terribly, terribly wrong before the war started. And the fact that the oil fields could have been set aflame like they were in Kuwait, the fact that we could have had mass refugees and dislocations and it didn't happen. The bridges could have been blown up. There could have been a fortress Baghdad where the moat around it with oil in it and people fighting to the death. ...
MR. RUSSERT: Was a robust insurgency on your list that you gave the president?
SEC'Y RUMSFELD: I don't remember whether that was on there, but certainly it was discussed the possibility that you could have dead-enders who would fight. ...
