While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), at a news briefing attempts to explain away the lack of evidence linking Iraq to international terrorism:

       [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.  There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don’t know.  But there are also unknown unknowns—there are things we do not know we don’t know.

       [restored 7/3/2023] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.