In light of the Rumsfeld-McGovern exchange, people have already pounced on Rumsfeld’s denial that he had previously said he knew where the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were located.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/04.html#a8164

However, he appears to have stepped into another pile of B.S. here:

McGovern: Well we’re talking about lies and your allegation there was bulletproof evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Iraq. Was that a lie? or where you mislead?

RUMSFELD: Zar..., Zarqawi was in Baghdad during the prewar period. That is a fact.

McGovern: Zarqawi? He was in the north of Iraq in a place where Saddam Hussein had no rule. That's where he was.

RUMSFELD: He was also… (crosstalk) He was also in Baghdad.

McGovern: Yes, when he needed to go to the hospital.

Come on, these people aren’t idiots. They know the story.

 

This appears to relate to that red-hot intelligence distributed to the media prior to the invasion that Zarqawi had gone to a hospital in Baghdad – to have his leg amputated.  Here’s something to refresh your memory, in case you’ve forgotten:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067876/

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/17/al.zarqawi.statement/

Obviously, this tip didn’t seem so hot once we saw the video of a two-legged Zarqawi decapitating Nick Berg (along with numerous other videos since then).  Yet Rummy still clings to this fraud, despite its obvious and almost comical refutation.