Rumsfeld complained at SAIS a week ago that there are 14,500 murders a year in the United States and 42,000 driving fatalities, and the US press isn’t covering that, whereas, he implies, 43 people getting blown up on a bus in Baghdad is front page news.
Rumsfeld is committing a logical fallacy here. … Does [he] think that there is not also a murder rate in Iraq beyond the guerrilla violence?… [T]he fact is, Mr. Rumsfeld, that the per capita rates for murder and traffic deaths in Iraq may well be similar to those in the United States. The deaths in the guerrilla war are extra.
“Mr. President,� one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.�
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,� Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!�
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.�
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