"The task we've got ahead of us now is an awkward one. It's untidy. And
freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit
crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do
wonderful things”—U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on April
11, 2003, in reference to looting in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.
Rumsfeld added: "While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one
can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of
repression and people who have had members of their family killed by
that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime.
And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures who wouldn't
accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to
freedom."
Via Grenville Whitman
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