His Humpty-Dumptiness

Watch in amazement as top US military spokesmen try to maintain that we are most definitely winning the war in Iraq (and have been for some time — probably averaging in our military successes for several years before the invasion).
Here is Donald Rumsfeld helping the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff maintain his wall of denial. Based on this alone I think Rumsfeld should be named our new Secretary of Humpty-Dumptiness (in the traditional, conventional Humpty-Dumpty context, of course).

"The United States and the coalition forces, in my personal view, will not be the thing that will defeat the insurgency," he said.

"So therefore winning or losing is not the issue, in my view, in the traditional, conventional context of using the word 'winning' and 'losing' in a war," he said.

["US admits Iraq insurgency undiminished", 27 April 2005.]

Posted on April 27, 2005 at 19.08 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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