"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
--Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 2003
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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.
—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
(formed into verse in Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld, by Hart Seely)
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