Donald Rumsfeld Says Obama Administration Has Not Justified Intervention in Syria
Perhaps not the best person to be telling anyone about unjustified interventions
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Obama administration has not yet justified an attack on Syria.
"There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect to this particular situation," Rumsfeld told Fox News' Neil Cavuto on Wednesday.
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Hmmm... has Rummy noticed that Syria seems to have the stuff Iraq didn't? By the Bush Administration's own standards, an attack on Syria would be more justified than the attack on Iraq was, seeing as how there's actual chemical weapons present in the case of the former. Or is it the pretense, yet absence, of chemical weapons that justifies action?