{"id":520,"date":"2004-09-11T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2004-09-11T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T17:35:48","slug":"rumsfeld-confuses-osama-for-saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Rumsfeld Confuses Osama for Saddam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RumsfeldClose.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">On the eve of 9\/11, our own Secrety of Defense seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-rummy11sep11,1,2859808.story\" target=\"_blank\">unable to tell the difference<\/a> between Saddam Hussein, who didn&#8217;t attack America, and Osama bin Laden who killed at least 3000 on American soil&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld mixed up Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice in a speech Friday.<\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;the leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, Masoud, lay dead, his murder ordered by Saddam Hussein, by Osama bin Laden, Taliban&#8217;s co-conspirator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Shah Masoud, who opposed the ruling Taliban, was killed by suspected Al Qaeda operatives \u2014 not Hussein \u2014 two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Later, Rumsfeld said, &#8220;Saddam Hussein, if he&#8217;s alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying to not get caught. And we&#8217;ve not seen him on a video since 2001.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq; Bin Laden has not been found.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently Rummy not only skipped the &#8220;understand your enemy&#8221; part of war school, he must have been absent for the &#8220;know WHO your enemy actually is&#8221; lesson as well!<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps it&#8217;s as BRAD BLOG tipster, Alexi put it: &#8220;Must be something in the water over at the White House&#8221;. Apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of 9\/11, our own Secrety of Defense seems unable to tell the difference between Saddam Hussein, who didn&#8217;t attack America, and Osama bin Laden who killed at least 3000 on American soil&#8230; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld mixed up Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}