Secretary of Defense Pleads Ignorance (And Often)

[mburbank]

While Rumsfeld is deffinitely the master of the deliberate, contemptous obfuscation, it is a common tool of the administration. My current favorite non rumsfled example? Chenney was asked why Halliburton recieved massive contracts without bidding. He said "I don't know. Ask the Pentagon."

If Rumsfled has not been briefed on Sadaams documents (which is laughable) then he is certainly in dereliction of his duty. He's in no position to say he leaves things like that to the experts since he's routinely overridden defense and intelligence experts on Iraq.

One last item. While I personally have nothing against the Sadaam pictures, to claim that the ones where he's searched for lice had any purpose other than humiliation is absurd.