RUMSFELD: FLOWERS SHOES, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? I KNEW IRAQIS WOULD TREAT US LIKE LIBERATORS
By R J Shulman
SANTA FE, New Mexico – (PTSD News) - Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the recent shoe throwing event in Baghdad has finally vindicated his assertion that Americans would be greeted by Iraqis as liberators. “So I was a little off when it came to what they would greet us with,” said Rumsfeld from his home in New Mexico. “But they did greet us.”

“Can you imagine what would have happened to that journalist if he had thrown a shoe at Saddam Hussein?” Rumsfeld asked. “My God! That poor reporter would have been wrestled to the ground, arrested and tortured in some prison, but now that Iraq is a free country, all that happened to the shoe thrower was that he was wrestled to the ground, arrested and tortured in some prison. That is proof positive that freedom is on the march.”

Rumsfeld said that it was a matter of time before his other pre-war prediction would come true, that Iraqi oil profits would pay for the war. “By my calculation, we should break even sometime in 2525.”