9/11 Rummy Tells His Story

September 9, 2011

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PHOTO: TIME MAGAZINE

Tell me, hatas, that he wasn’t a competent man for after a 9/11. Here’s his story.He’s not lovable but he’s competent.

Time Magazine Interview with then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The transcript and link are below.

Donald Rumsfeld 9/11 memoir is here.

On Sept. 11, 2001, I went to the Pentagon early in the morning and was hosting a breakfast for a group of members of Congress to talk about the defense budget. They were concerned about an increase in the defense budget, which I was convinced was needed. And they were worried about what was called then the Social Security lockbox. They wanted to be supportive, but they were afraid of the political implications if they took money and someone could contend that it was shorting Social Security, which of course it would not be. 

Read the rest at the above link. 

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