Did anyone else hear the BBC's "Today" programme this morning?

The abovementioned Staff was speaking as the US Army's spokesperson on the news item about the latest car bomb in Bagdad. Apart from the ghoulish quality of his name (surely destined to be one of the legendary job/name matches), this individual appeared to be utterly tongue-tied and when he did say anything he was clearly an honours graduate from the Donald Rumsfeld School of Rhetoric...

Is there no-one in the US Army who's capable of giving a coherent explanation of what they are doing there?