Funny, Rumsfeld understood the balance of power in the Mideast when he worked for Daddy. Heard a couple interesting quotes from his from the Gulf War as to why the US didn't eliminate Saddam Hussein then -- Rumsfeld himself called it a bad idea.

So then he changes his mind and he and the whole mess o' Neocons insist on shoving this war down our (the electorate's) throat AND he insists it can be done with more technology but smaller fighting forces , laughs when the basic infrastructure of the country is destroyed and then wonders why Iraqi's aren't particularly happy with the US since they have no jobs, no schools, no electricity, no water, no food, no safe place to be -- and definitely no freedom (the major freedom is of necessity the freedom to be SAFE) or democracy.

But, then again, what do Republicans know about democracy except how to manipulate it to their own ends?

Linn