Rumsfeld said Bush, who made the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons his main justification for war, also “spent weeks and weeks with the Central Intelligence people” before making his case to the American people.”They gave the world their honest opinion,” Rumsfeld added. “It appears that there were no weapons of mass destruction.”

McGovern shot back, “You said you knew where they were,” referring to the Iraqi weapons.

“I did not,” Rumsfeld retorted. “I said I knew where suspect sites were.”

“You said you know where they were, near Tikrit, near Baghdad, and north, east, south and west of there. Those are your words,” McGovern shot back.

“I’d just like an honest answer,” McGovern added. “We’re talking about lies,” also mentioning the administration’s assertions of prewar ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.

The article then goes on to add

A week and a half into the war, Rumsfeld was asked on March 30, 2003, on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” whether he found it curious that U.S. forces had not yet found weapons of mass destruction.

“Not at all,” Rumsfeld responded, according to a Pentagon transcript of the interview.

“We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat,” Rumsfeld stated.

Rumsfeld on January 20, 2003, said Saddam’s government had “large, unaccounted for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, including VX, sarin, mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox,” as well as “an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons.”

BBC’s headline : Radio host is new Bush spokesman

CNN’s headline : Fox anchor named Bush press secretary

Guess which one provokes more derision and maniacal laughter. I wonder what the Onion will have to say next week.

I finally upgraded wordpress (this blogging software) to version 2.0.1 and beyond. Instead of following the usual upgrade instructions, I just checked out an svn version right on top of my old wordpress directory. I had to move things around a bit, but eventually I have this blog running on a development version that I can keep up2date whenever I want to.

Now I have to figure out how to get my “I’m feeling lucky plugin” working again and update it on the wordpress plugin repository. Also, the backup plugin needs some tweaking. I shall also tweak the template to give my del.icio.us bookmarks a little more space. I seem to be bookmarking more things and easing up on writing blog posts. If you notice anything funny with the website after the upgrade, please let me know.

What is interesting is that when writing a{n}h{m}, people tend to use more h’s than a’s. Does this mean that they were more surprised or more satisfied?