Sometimes we lament the awkward statements from the Chinese authorities. They are actually far left behind by Rumsfeld, see here edited excerpts from the International Herald Tribune, 7 June 2006: “Rumsfeld is correct: The truth will get out”:
The defense secretary, by design or despite himself, and more often the latter, is a master of the bon mot. Alas, he is not a master of self-criticism.
It seems that Rumsfeld has a French side.
Ultimately the truth gets out, notwithstanding people’s efforts to the contrary.
– “Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.” “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” “There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.”
– “Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” Or, in a more succinct exegesis: “Stuff happens.”
– “As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
– “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
– Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha, Iraq, 24 Iraqi civilians were killed. Rumsfeld is promising clarity: “There’s an investigation going on as to what took place. There’s an investigation going as to what took place after whatever took place.”

I really feel sorry for both the US military, facing a daily nightmare, as well as the Iraqi population. Was it all worth? Is there any light in the tunnel?
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I had just posted the above I received a tip on more Donald Rumsfeld Quotes, follows a shorter version. For the full version go to:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/quotethis/a/rumsfeldquotes.htm
You really don’t need a comics book. You just need to read this:
Memorable Quotes by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – by Daniel Kurtzman
“I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.”
“We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.”
“We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.” –on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction
“Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” –on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding “stuff happens”
“As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
“I am not going to give you a number for it because it’s not my business to do intelligent work.” -asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress
“I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it’s what I said.”
“If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I’m disinclined to mislead anyone.”
“Well, um, you know, something’s neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said.”
“Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.”
“Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.”
“I don’t know what the facts are but somebody’s certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know.”
“I’m not into this detail stuff. I’m more concepty.”
“I don’t do quagmires.”
“I don’t do diplomacy.”
“I don’t do foreign policy.”
“I don’t do predictions.”
“I don’t do numbers.”
“I don’t do book reviews.”
“If I know the answer I’ll tell you the answer, and if I don’t, I’ll just respond, cleverly.”