“We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ….. erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.”

—  Donald Rumsfeld

http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1943315,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/24/schroeder.blair/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030621143902/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s865620.htm
2000s

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