The sound of no hands clapping - Rumsfeld unhinged

I'm astounded at how delusional Rumsfeld has become. The NYT offers a few more quotes from his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday.

“If we left Iraq prematurely,” he said, “the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East. And if we left the Middle East, they’d order us and all those who don’t share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines.” And finally, he intoned, America will be forced “to make a stand nearer home.”

The Generals, as you've no doubt heard, didn't get on board with the Rummy line this time.

They had to acknowledge that a militia controls Basra, that powerful Iraqi government officials run armed bands that the Pentagon considers terrorist organizations financed by Iran, and that about a third of the Iraqi police force can’t be trusted to fight on the right side.

Not that deters Rumdumb from pressing on with his narrative.

As for Mr. Rumsfeld, he suggested that lawmakers just leave everything up to him and the military command and stop talking about leaving Iraq. “We should consider how our words can be used by our deadly enemy,” he said.

Right. Ssshhh!! Don't talk about it and maybe nobody will notice that our "deadly enemies" reside within the new government we're propping up in Iraq.