Re: NBC: Rum remark wins Rumsfeld an award

On 2 Dec 2003 08:11:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Poynton)
wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3254852.stm
>
>Last Updated: Tuesday, 2 December, 2003, 01:09 GMT  
>
>Rum remark wins Rumsfeld an award
>
>US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won a "Foot in Mouth" award
>for one of his now legendary bizarre remarks.
>Mr Rumsfeld won the prize for comments made at a news conference in
>February last year which left observers baffled.
>
>"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also
>know there are known unknowns," he said.

Nice way to take something out of context.  The actual quote should
read:

"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."