Rumsfeld Mixes Up Hussein, Bin Laden in Speech

[johnfunk]

From Times Wire Services

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld mixed up Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice in a speech Friday.

Among other things, Rumsfeld talked about the world just before the Sept. 11 attacks, whose third anniversary is today. In Afghanistan, he told the National Press Club, "the leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, Masoud, lay dead, his murder ordered by Saddam Hussein, by Osama bin Laden, Taliban's co-conspirator."

Quite telling, eh?

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. thats like the 10th time he's done that

this weekend

[KitSileya]

2. This was reported in Norwegian newspaper yesterday.

I posted it in the GD because I couldn't find an English source. I translated the two translations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2338719

The article was quite sarcastic - giving Rumsfeld some instructions as to how to keep the two apart....

[Coventina]

3. "Oops! Did I say Hussein? I meant Bin Laden!"

*wink wink*

There are no depths these people won't descend to.

[Moderator]

4. No link, duplicate, and not current news

Be sure to provide a link and do a search so as not to duplicate.

From Sept 10th:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=817707