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Check out this great quote:

"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing. I think it's a very constructive exchange," Rumsfeld said of the questioner.

You may remember Part 1 of Rumsfeldian Epistemology, put into poem form by Slate:

The Unknown
"As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

As a proud holder of a degree in philosophy, I admire the conciseness and exactitude of those quotes, esp. since they were probably made off-the-cuff. I tend to, as Zane said the other day, "over-contextualize" statements I make as well. The two statements above actually make a lot of sense if you can, as Rumsfeld might say, "parse them out." I understand that other folks, though, could easily find them to be a bunch of jibber-jabber.

Anyhow, hopefully we'll get some more "poetry" out of him.