Category: politics

The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. – By Hart Seely – Slate Magazine

The poems that follow are the exact words of the defense secretary, as taken from the official transcripts on the Defense Department Web site.

Donald 'Rummy' RumsfeldThe Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.

—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

More of this insanity is available: The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. – By Hart Seely – Slate Magazine

What he didn’t mention, is that there are also unknown knowns! That is to say, things we don’t know we know.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Not Found

Weapons of Mass Destruction Not FoundThis was a ‘Google Bomb‘ for the phrase ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction‘ that occurred when you typed it into Google, and clicked ‘I’m feeling lucky!’ For some reason, the search result disappeared from the face of G, but I was able to find it in G Images here. I like the little red link at the bottom… I’d love one of those shirts…