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Press Briefing by Tony Snow 12/04/06 (Topic: Rumsfeld Memo)
— Monday, December 04, 2006 — Q Rumsfeld says in the memo, advising the President, "announce that whatever new approach the U.S. decides on, the U.S. is doing so on a trial basis." MR. SNOW: That's one of the options. Q Right, this will give the U.S. the "ability to readjust and move to another force, if necessary, and therefore, not to lose." MR. SNOW: Right. Q Does the President typically get this kind of advice from Rumsfeld, to do one thing, but tell the American people he's doing something else? MR. SNOW: No. Again, if you take a look at this, this is illustrative options and this covers a whole lot of ground. And the President can sort through it. I think Secretary Rumsfeld was musing, but you'll have to ask Secretary Rumsfeld what he had in mind. Q You don't see this as duplicitous in any way? MR. SNOW: You know, I'll let you characterize it. What he was doing was laying out options. Q Well, how does the White House characterize it? To say to tell the American people one thing and to do another -- MR. SNOW: Well, the White House characterizes it -- Q -- how is that not duplicitous? MR. SNOW: Again, if you take a look -- Suzanne, you read through every one of these, correct? Q Right. MR. SNOW: And you understand that there are a whole series of options, some of which probably reflect the thinking of Secretary Rumsfeld and probably some of which don't; correct? And you understand that these are options that may represent the views, including of people on Capitol Hill, Democrats with whom he may disagree. These are not recommendations. These are options. These are illustrative options. These are ways of looking at things. And I will leave it at that. You will note that these are not recommendations by the Secretary of Defense. You're treating it as a recommendation. Q But the option -- just listen to the language of the option -- "announce that whatever new approach the U.S. decides on, the U.S. is doing so on a trial basis." Is he suggesting that whatever the approach is, we're going to call it one thing, but it's another? Is that -- MR. SNOW: No -- I will let the words speak for themselves, because, honestly, I have not spoken with the Defense Secretary about what he meant by specific bullet points on this and, therefore, I'm going to have to leave it to him. White House Press Corps | Press Briefing | Tony Snow | News Media | Bush Administration | Iraq
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