Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

Donald Rumsfeld, February 20th 2003, when asked if US forces would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq:

"There is no question but that they would be welcomed... Go back to Afghanistan, the people were in the streets playing music, cheering, flying kites, and doing all the things that the Taliban and the al-Qaeda would not let them do."

Donald Rumsfeld, September 25th, 2003:

"Never said that. Never did. You may remember it well, but you're thinking of somebody else. You can't find, anywhere, me saying anything like either of those two things you just said I said."

Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 18, 2002, testifying about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the House Armed Services Committee:

"(Saddam) has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons.. including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas."

Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002:

"(Saddam) has at this moment stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons."

Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon news conference, October 2003:

Reporter: "In retrospect, were you a little too far-leaning in your statement that Iraq categorically had caches of weapons, of chemical and biological weapons, given what's been found to date? You painted a picture of extensive stocks."

Rumsfeld: "Wait. You go back and give me something that talks about extensive stocks. The U.N. reported extensive stocks. That is where that came from. I said what I believed to be the case, and I don't - I'd be surprised if you found the word 'extensive."'

(quotes courtesy of Common Dreams)