Rumsfeld's views on freedom

[Doc]

During his speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on October 4, 2004 Donald Rmsfeld responded to a question about the possibility of civil war in Iraq...


QUESTIONER: Mr. Secretary, my name is Steven Mukamal. On your previous visit, I thanked you for liberating the country of my birth. Today, I have a question for you: Do you have a scenario in case there is a civil war?

RUMSFELD: There is a risk of things happening in any country that one doesn't want to happen. And when a particularly repressive government is removed, the repression ends, freedom is there. People are then free to be rational, or to be vicious killers. I mean, once you're free, you are free to be a criminal, or you can be an anti-Semite; you can be a--go out and engage in ethnic cleansing, and do all kinds of things that are--that free people do in different parts of the globe.

Uhhhh...

Doc

[Shark Bait]

That statement is chilling.

Free countries STOP that sort of thing, Mrs Rummy. Dontcha know?

[Colonel Kook]

Your poll is hysterical! I've always had my reservations with Mr. Rumsfeld.