Apr '03 [Home] Rummy Poetry The Opaque Tropes of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld |
. | . | . | The Hamburg Abendblatt recently asked, Was weiss Herr Rumsfeld von Dante? The Unknown 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. —Feb. 12, 2003, Department of Defense news briefing ~ . Happenings You get told things every day that don't happen. It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't— It's printed in the press. The world thinks all these things happen. They never happened. Everyone's so eager to get the story Before in fact the story's there That the world is constantly being fed Things that haven't happened. All I can tell you is, It hasn't happened. It's going to happen. —Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing |