“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center…that they would try to use ..a hijacked airplane as a missile.”
- Condoleeza Rice, despite reams of reports to the contrary
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
- Bush, lying through his teeth, of course, as the revelation of reports that stated just that surfaced later.
""I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard"
- Condoleeza Rice - again - after the Palestinian elections, despite that all polls showed Hamas would win. Never mind that they, you know, were on the damn ballots in the first place. So they already had at least a shot of winning.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: General Pace, you said there’s a possibility of the situation in Iraq evolving into civil war. Is that correct?
GEN. PACE: I did say that, yes, sir.
SEN. MCCAIN: Did you anticipate this situation a year ago?
GEN. PACE: No, sir.
- General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying before Congress earlier this month concerning the situation in Iraq.
No, seriously, these guys have the resources of the entire United States at their disposal and they can't anticipate a damn thing happening, in spite of all evidence that would say otherwise. This is horrific job performance. Perhaps they should collectively be fired?
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