Anti-war protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday, and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him in a question-and-answer session of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence.Video at the link. You’ve got to watch it. I love the part where Rumsfeld says, “I’m not in the intelligence business.” Nope—just in the business of going to war on cherry-picked intelligence.
"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst.
"I did not lie," shot back Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern from the hall at the Southern Center for International Studies.
President Bush seldom faces such challenges. Demonstrators usually are kept far from him when he delivers public remarks.Yeah, we know.
(More on the courageous Ray McGovern here and here.)
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