Support Their Troops

I love Rumsfeld. He’s a bona fide psychopath. It’s almost cute. Today he chastised Wolf Blitzer for harping on “this one little detail” when Wolf asked him why, after three years, only one Iraqi battalion was ready to fight on it’s own. It would be easier to ignore this little detail if every official speech on the war didn’t include the phrase “as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down”. Appearing on CNN with his human shield and concur-a-tron, General nodalot Sunday the Secretary of Defense dodged reality like a matador. At one point the pair actually tried to make the case that it was somehow incorrect to expect Iraqi troops to be able to fight without US support because after all, our own troops need US support to fight too. I’m changing my bumper sticker- “Support Their Troops”.