Message to Donald Rumsfeld

Don,
Think you need to talk to the President and the National Security Council. Did you know they are calling people in Iraq who don't have a legitimate gripe “insurgents.” They are actually saying there is an insurgency underway in Iraq. The “National Strategy For Victory in Iraq”, published today, is just full of references to insurgents who you said don't exist.

Remember when you had an epiphany and said “I think that you can have a legitimate insurgency in a country that has popular support and has a cohesiveness and has a legitimate gripe....These people don't have a legitimate gripe?”

Don't they know you have re-defined who can be called an insurgent? Don't they know there is no insurgency in Iraq? Do you think they are guilty of revisionism? They need to listen to you more.
Posted on The Human Stain