Friday, October 17, 2003
Daily Quiz: What Do the Words That Came Out From the Hole Under Rumsfeld's Nose Mean?
Today's quiz concerns the last three paragraphs in the following excerpt:
Rumsfeld Says Anti-Islam Aide Is 'Outstanding'
Thus, today's Quiz question: What Do the Words That Came Out From the Hole Under Rumsfeld's Nose Mean?
Leave your answers in the Comment window below. The winning entry will be posted.
posted by Blicero : 10/17/2003 02:44:00 AM
Rumsfeld Says Anti-Islam Aide Is 'Outstanding'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Reuters)— Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declined on Thursday to criticize a senior Pentagon intelligence official who has told evangelical gatherings that Muslims worship an "idol" and not "a real God," and instead praised the general's "outstanding" military record.
Lt. Gen. William Boykin of the Army, deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, has used speeches at churches and prayer breakfasts to portray the American battle with Muslim radicals as a fight against "Satan," saying militant Islamists sought to destroy America "because we're a Christian nation."
NBC News broadcast videotapes of General Boykin, an evangelical Christian, giving a number of speeches while wearing his military uniform at religious functions around the country.
At a Pentagon briefing, Mr. Rumsfeld declined to answer when asked whether it was appropriate or advisable for a high-ranking Pentagon official to make such remarks in public, and did not say whether he would investigate.
"We do know that he is an officer that has an outstanding record in the United States Armed Forces," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
"There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the executive branch, that are their views, and that's the way we live," Mr. Rumsfeld said. "We're a free people."
"Saddam Hussein could do it pretty well, because he'd go around killing people if they said things he didn't like," he added.
Thus, today's Quiz question: What Do the Words That Came Out From the Hole Under Rumsfeld's Nose Mean?
Leave your answers in the Comment window below. The winning entry will be posted.
posted by Blicero : 10/17/2003 02:44:00 AM
