John was right, Rumsfeld is just the gift that keeps on giving. From Reuters:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.This must be a flip / flop record - it seems the administration now thinks that it can get away with saying the exact opposite of what it said just HOURS earlier. Now that's strong leadership, I feel a LOT safer.
"I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between al Qaeda and Iraq," Rumsfeld said in a Web site statement issued following remarks he made to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday.
