Matt Lauer Interviews Donald Rumsfeld who Releases "Rumsfeld's Rules"...

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As is to be expected, Matt Lauer conducted a short, fluffy interview and offered no meaningful resistance or forceful counterpoints to Rumsfeld's statements. Here is an excerpt that may call to mind one of the many things that Rumsfeld has said in the past:

NBC's Lauer Asks Rumsfeld if Benghazi Scandal is Just GOP Trying to 'Discredit' Hillary
By Kyle Drennen | May 14, 2013 | 17:33

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LAUER: Do you think that the administration has answered enough questions on it? Do you think it's possible that some Republicans are trying to use this to discredit Hillary Clinton in case she decides to run for president in 2016?

RUMSFELD: No. I think that's a side – that's the sideshow, is the Hillary Clinton piece of it. No, the first problem was if you're going to put people at risk, you have to try to protect them. And the British took their people out because they knew they were at risk. And the Americans were left in and they weren't provided the kind of security that they needed, obviously, because they're dead.

LAUER: Let's turn to your book. Lots of rules and maxims in here. Some make perfect common sense, "Set your goals, learn from those who have been there, trust your instincts." This one caught my eye, though, Mr. Secretary, "It is easier to get into something than to get out of it."

RUMSFELD: It's true.

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2013/05/14/nbcs-lauer-asks-rumsfeld-if-benghazi-scandal-just-gop-trying-discredit

Noteworthy is Lauer's smooth transition away from anything that might require a thoughtful response from the guest. At this point, Lauer could have been replaced by a fluffy bunny in Wolf Blitzer glasses and the interview would have been equally well done.

One should recall that Donald Rumsfeld knows about protecting people who are put at risk:

So, here (apparently) is Rumsfeld's Rule on protecting people who are put at risk:

"You go to war with the army you have..uh..not the army you might want
or wish to have at a later time."

--Donald Rumsfeld, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, December 8, 2004

For a more complete presentation of Rumsfeld's statement, one may consult this article:

Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: December 8, 2004

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait, Dec. 8 - In an extraordinary exchange at this remote desert camp, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld found himself on the defensive today, fielding pointed questions from Iraq-bound troops who complained that they were being sent into combat with insufficient protection and aging equipment.

Specialist Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit scheduled to roll into Iraq this week, said soldiers had to scrounge through local landfills here for pieces of rusty scrap metal and bulletproof glass - what they called "hillbilly armor" - to bolt on to their trucks for protection against roadside bombs in Iraq.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-rumsfeld.html?_r=0

[hfojvt]

1. Obama just needs a couple of Rumsfelds

to go before Congress like Rumsfeld did after Abu Ghraib and say

"I take full responsibility for this."

"And by full responsibility I mean that the most serious consequence I will face because of this disaster is that I will appear before Congress and TV cameras and say 'I take full responsibility for this'."

[xocet]

3. I don't know if the media would give him a pass for that, though. n/t

[JEB]

2. Rummy would look a lot better

in an orange jump suit. I ignore habitual liars.

[Mnemosyne]

4. That fucking war criminal was on CBS this a.m. also, had to turn off set. I never, in my wildest

dreams, could have imagined living in a country where war criminals are paraded as experts on television; the 'news', late night talk shows, daytime talk shows, etc., create a world almost beyond surreal.

[xocet]

5. I used to have very similar beliefs. Surreality is apparently the rule nowadays. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

8. It certainly is, xocet. nt

[Raster]

6. war criminal says what?

another member of the cheney*/bush* vampire elite seeks relevance.

[spanone]

7. fuck the war criminal....i shit on his book