Rumsfeld: Looting Is Transition To Freedom

Story by Pamela Hess, UPI Pentagon Correspondent [not The Onion]
Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom

[F]reedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here," Rumsfeld said.

Furthermore:

"While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime," he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

Donald Rumsfeld, in his own words, twelve years ago (April 11, 2003). That is all.

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