Condi, Rummy, And The A-rabs....

Now, I really did a double-take when Condi made that asinine statement about how we've made thousands of mistakes in Iraq. Monday morning quarterbacking in a war, especially when offered by folks who haven't clue-one ABOUT war, usually fails to give the enemy the benefit of having even half a brain, and each and every time they win a few inches of ground it just HAS to be someone on our side's mistake.

Untrue. War is like a bonfire gone berserk. It takes on a life of it's own and at the end of the day the one left standing was the luckiest. EVERY war is the same. Look at the "mistakes" made during WWII. It's never been more true that sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. I liked Condi when she first came on the scene, I really did, but lately it's been one bliss-nanny deal after another with her, and I've lost all tolerance for merely accepting the dumb things she says and does.

Anyway, here's what them there A-rabs are saying about Rummy calling Condi a stupid old whore who should go back to making coffee for the men and leaving her persnikety snoot out of the experts' business. Well, he kinda said something like it.


WASHINGTON, 9 April 2006 — Just what a lame duck president does not need — a public spat between his top administration officials over the war in Iraq.

The Defense Department and State Department are involved in yet another power struggle, and this time it’s gone public. Previous Secretary of State Colin Powell quietly stepped down when he realized he was impotent in foreign policy matters — against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his team.

But Condoleezza Rice, current head at state, is not taking Rummie’s jostling in stride.

Evidence of the deepening longstanding tensions over Iraq between state and defense departments were made public and personal last week when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said, during a radio interview, he didn’t know what Rice was talking about when she recently told a UK think tank that the United States had made “thousands of tactical errors” in its managing of the war in Iraq.

Rumsfeld then all but accused Rice of not being up to the job. Calling the changes in military tactics during the war ‘errors’ reflects her lack of understanding of warfare, he said.

“Why? Because the enemy’s got a brain; the enemy watches what you do and then adjusts to that, so you have to constantly adjust and change your tactics, your techniques and your procedures.”

Then in a direct swipe at Rice, Rumsfeld added: “If someone says that’s a tactical mistake, then I guess it’s a lack of understanding… of what warfare is about.”