Heck, some people even thought it was clever to format it into a poem.
I am surely not the first to recognise the similarity to this poem.
ETA: no, I'm not.
Hm, those are superficially similar, maybe, but I'm glad that someone, at least, was asking "er, what's the deal with the Rumsfeld quote?" back in '03.
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