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The downside to lying all the time is that chronic liars eventually get caught. Public and prolific liars could even get caught on national TV. That’s what happened to Donald Rumsfeld on Face the Nation.

In late 2002, Rumsfeld said:

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Last week, Rumsfeld denied ever using the phrase “immediate threat:”

You and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase “immediate threat.” I didn’t. The president didn’t. And it’s become kind of folklore that that’s what’s happened.”

Folklore? Please. See the video. Judge for yourself: Rumsfeld caught lying on Face the Nation. Watch him backpedal as the video fades out, stuttering about “the best intelligence…” What a maroon.

Here’s a page full of Bush, Rumsfeld, and the whole band of neo-con lunatics spouting off about imminent and immediate terrorist threats.