Donald Rumsfeld proves once again that he can be as out-of-touch with reality as Bush. His glibness is astonishing. This from one of the chief architects of preemptive war and the invasion of Iraq. Read the transcript of the Secretary answering reporters questions here. Here is the key quote:

Q: Is the country closer to a civil war?

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, I don’t know. You know, I thought about that last night, and just musing over the words, the phrase, and what constitutes it. If you think of our Civil War, this is really very different. If you think of civil wars in other countries, this is really quite different. There is — there is a good deal of violence in Baghdad and two or three other provinces, and yet in 14 other provinces there’s very little violence or numbers of incidents. So it’s a — it’s a highly concentrated thing. It clearly is being stimulated by people who would like to have what could be characterized as a civil war and win it, but I’m not going to be the one to decide if, when or at all.

Oh, I don’t know!? La-la-la! He discusses the misery, death and destruction happening in Iraq as cavalierly as if it were an announcement of windfall oil company profits. It is good however, to see that he was, “musing”. I’ve heard that musing is very relaxing for the soul. 100 dead Iraqi civilians (human beings) each day.

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