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Originally Posted by Eight Ace":15ca6][quote=ninty9]This award, which we first gave in 1993, is for a truly baffling comment.
The 2003 winner is United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for comments in a press briefing.
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because 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.'
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I thought to "put your foot in your mouth" was to blow it/contradict
yourself/compromise yourself/give away too much information etc
...that statement is more
Waffle aka
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Rumsfeld did that too, before 9-11 he said that big aircraft carriers like the USS Nimitz class are outdated and practically useless and we need small carriers for "regional conflicts", shortly thereafter the military sent 3 large carriers to Afghanistan rolleyes: