(Another) Message for Donald Rumsfeld

Don,
Did you talk to your Army commanders in Iraq? Think it might be advisable that you let them know what the party line – oops, I mean what the situation on the ground in Iraq really is. They are actually stating that the vast majority of fighters in Iraq are Iraqi's. Doesn't this mean that the fighters are insurgents? Well, that can't be either because you said that during your sudden epiphany over Thanksgiving weekend, you decided “This is a group of people who don't merit the word 'insurgency'.” Apparently over the last 5 months, of the 1,300 suspected insurgents arrested around Ramadi, none were foreigners. Now, we all know that you and the White House have a better finger on the pulse of action in Iraq, saying that the majority of fighters in Iraq are foreign terrorists. Don, your commanders are really screwing up the propaganda – oops, I mean the realities in Iraq. They need to be educated.

Hope this isn't going to cause any Americans to think you don't know what you're talking about – or worse, that you might not be telling the truth.
Posted on The Human Stain