Waves Happen
As the result of a bureaucratic slip-up, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was inadvertently included in the United States government delegation sent to comfort tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.
“Waves happen,” Mr. Rumsfeld told survivors. “Weather is untidy. Sometimes you have to make do with the weather you get instead of the weather you want.”
Mr. Rumsfeld also criticized the news coverage of the disaster. “They just keep showing the same wave over and over again,” he said.
Despite considerable alarm and protest in Asia over Mr. Rumsfeld’s comments, President Bush expressed his confidence in the secretary. “Beneath his gruff, brusque exterior, Donald Rumsfeld is a sensitive, caring man,” he said. Presidential sources later said Mr. Rumsfeld was scheduled to return to Washington “as soon as we can get him out of there.”
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