On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 06:22:34 GMT, "Sandman"
wrote:

Arnii, now you've really gone and done it. You friggin' moron, I cited the
article and copied it exactly word for word. If you don't like the wording
or formatting complain to the editor of the article, you idiot, not me!

Yes, it was the article that misquoted the Secretary. However, it
really doesn't make the statement anymore incomprehensible.

Here's the *actual* quote, with a little extra added:
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Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting
to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we
know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we
know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks
throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is
the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

And so people who have the omniscience that they can say with high
certainty that something has not happened or is not being tried, have
capabilities that are -- what was the word you used, Pam, earlier?

Q: Free associate? (laughs)

Rumsfeld: Yeah. They can -- (chuckles) -- they can do things I can't
do. (laughter)

Q: Excuse me. But is this an unknown unknown?

Rumsfeld: I'm not --

Q: Because you said several unknowns, and I'm just wondering if this
is an unknown unknown.

Rumsfeld: I'm not going to say which it is.
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I like the last statement especially.

BTW, I note that Arnold Krueger turned the quote into verse without
attributing it to other sources, who have already done that. The
implication is that it was his own work, but he plagiarized it from
other sources on the net.

Oooops!