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Perry
05-20-2008, 10:58 AM
DELONG: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there.


RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less...

Source: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/rumsfeld-on-2006-election_n_101537.html)

AUDIO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdnGBVf0ro)

"This President's pretty much a victim of success"

A victim? Wait a second...I thought the entire point of the war on terror was to keep us safe. Would not a lack of attacks lead one to the conclusion that we are safe? Unless...the goal of the war on terror were something other than to keep us safe.
What possible conclusion could Donald Rumsfeld have drawn that leads him to make the statement that Americans' safety equals failure?

Perry
05-20-2008, 11:18 AM
Audio added.

crazyfingers
05-20-2008, 11:19 AM
I'm sure they're planning it right before the election...

Kotin
05-20-2008, 11:21 AM
Donny is right!


we need to remind the people how scary the terrorists are.

tmosley
05-20-2008, 12:06 PM
And if Obama still wins, we'll have a suitcase nuke go off in NY, and we'll have martial law.