Yes... the unknown unknowns was actually excellent.
It might sound a bit clumsy at first, but it really is the simplest way of explaining the concept of information which you do and don't have. It's a shame that Rumsfeld got mocked as though he was the stupid one, when he was attempting to dumb it down for those very people who mocked him.
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Stupid people think tautology is stupid,
But it ain't necessarily so. But this is a bit stupid, but it doesn't make it wrong: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 10 Dec 2014, 16:16,
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Not qute the same but
Buffalo buffalo buffalo ... etc.
(I'm not typing it all out on my phone).
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Ghoti Fingers, Wed 10 Dec 2014, 16:35,
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"An uneaten stone lion."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 10 Dec 2014, 16:47,
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what he said was well formed and interpretable
It's just a terrible, inadequate, slimy answer to the question he was given.
Rumsfeld had just said that intelligence showed that Iraq had actively worked on getting chemical weapons out to terrorists. That was support for why the US was actively planning to get involved in Iraq.
If someone then says "Does that evidence actually exist? What is it?"
It is not a good answer to say "There may be evidence out there that we don't know exists yet," when you're getting ready to invade a country.
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Wed 10 Dec 2014, 17:35,
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