"Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response. I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006."
-- Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, responding to President Obama's claim that commanders in Afghanistan asked for more troops to fight a Taliban resurgence but were ignored or rebuffed by the Bush administration
"We didn't have them because they were pushed to Iraq. That was the priority of the president."
-- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Michael Mullen on Capitol Hill Wednesday, responding to and directly refuting Rumsfeld's claim
"You go to war with the Secretary of Defense you have."
-- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday, parodying Rumsfeld's infamous line from December of 2004, "You go to war with the army you have," said in response to a question from a U.S. soldier in Iraq who wanted to know why troops were forced to dig through scrap piles looking for spare parts to armor their vehicles
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