Rumsfeld's mouth

The Secretary of Offense would not last 30 seconds in a Trappist monastery. Indeed, one has to wonder if he has taken a vow of perpetual unsilence. Yesterday he did his political thesaurus thing to tear into the 61% of us U.S. citizens who stand against the Bush war and occupation. Apparently Rumsfeld thinks we are all Fascist sympathizers, Nazi sympathizers, Communist sympathizers and perhaps Abominable Snowman sympathizers.

And now the Pentagon has issued a report that flies in Rumsfeld's face (and a fortiori in the face of the twin Commanders-in-Chief, George and Dick.) Though the report claims the ongoing Iraq civil war is not yet a civil war, it paints a realistic picture of the growing sectarian violence and the overall bloody chaos that 300,000,000,000 U.S. dollars have not been able to prevent. Speaking of sectarian violence, the Bushite rants about hitting 'em there so they don't hit us here become more and more irrelevant as more and more people learn that at least 90% of the violence in Iraq comes not from Al Qaeda but from home grown sectarian power struggles.

Just zip it, Rummy.