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Donald H. Rumsfeld: “When you have people filming in front of crowds, cheering and clapping, you have people cutting off people's tongues and…”

On the recordOctober 29, 2003
When you have people filming in front of crowds, cheering and clapping, you have people cutting off people's tongues and cutting off people's heads and chopping off their fingers and chopping off their hands, throwing them off three-story buildings, you learn something about a group of people and how they live their lives and how they treated their people.

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Rumsfeld discusses the implications of the graphic torture tapes recovered from Iraq, highlighting the brutality of Saddam Hussein's rule.

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