"To be considered torture, techniques must produce lasting psychological damage or suffering 'equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.' "
--
Justice Dept. memo, 1/9/02
"Geneva does not apply to our conflict with al-Qaeda; al-Qaeda detainees also do not qualify as prisoners of war."
--George W. Bush, memo, 2/7/02
"I stand 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?"
--Donal
Rumsfeld, on an interrogation technique memo, 2002
"Congress doesn't have the power to tie the president's hands in regard to torture as an interrogation technique. They can't prevent the president from ordering torture."
--Justice Dept. memo, 2005
"To be considered torture, techniques must produce lasting psychological damage or suffering 'equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.' "
--
Justice Dept. memo, 1/9/02
"Geneva does not apply to our conflict with al-Qaeda; al-Qaeda detainees also do not qualify as prisoners of war."
--George W. Bush, memo, 2/7/02
"I stand 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?"
--Donal
Rumsfeld, on an interrogation technique memo, 2002
"Congress doesn't have the power to tie the president's hands in regard to torture as an interrogation technique. They can't prevent the president from ordering torture."
--Justice Dept. memo, 2005
"We can say with reasonable confidence that the
notion of hundreds of thousands of American troops is way off the mark."
--Paul Wolfowitz, Feb. 27, 2003
"The idea that it would take several hundred thousand US forces I think is far off the mark."
-- Donald Rumsfeld,
Feb. 28, 2003
"We don't have enough troops. We don't control the terrain."
--Colin Powell, to George W. Bush and Tony Blair, Nov. 12, 2004
"In my weeks in Iraq,
I did not meet a single military officer who felt, privately, that we had enough troops."
--Coalition Provisional Authority adviser Larry Diamond, in a memo to Condoleezza Rice, April 26, 2004
"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad."
--
Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003
"We know that the regime has them; we know that as the regime collapses we will be led to them."
--Tony Blair, April 8, 2003
"We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. This is what this war
was about and is about."
--Ari Fleischer, April 10, 2003
"We are learning more as we interrogate Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."
--
George W. Bush, April 24, 2003
"We will find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so."
--George W. Bush, May 3, 2003.
"I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found."
--Gen Michael Hagee, Marine Corps commander, May 21, 2003
"Any remaining violence is due to thugs, gangs, and terrorists."
--Rumsfeld, 3/14/04
"There are some who feel that
the conditions are such that hey can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
--George W. Bush, 7/2/03
"You know, the country is basically peaceful."
--Paul Bremer, 9/24/03
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The above quotations are from Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, Oct. 1, 2008. Click here for other excerpts from Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, Oct. 1, 2008. Click here for other excerpts by Donald Rumsfeld. Click here for a profile of Donald Rumsfeld.
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