"I'm Not In The Intelligence Business"

Yeah, Rummy. No shit.

To his credit, he takes the questions but just forgets to give an answer. Then the guy they planted in the audience follows up by buttering up Rumsfeld before (I assume) lobbing a softball. So just recently, we had Tyler Drumheller on "60 Minutes," and now Ray McGovern—both of the CIA—both saying the White House was lying. Not "being misled," lying.

And again, those were Rumsfeld's exact words. From the March 30 episode of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos in 2003 (11 days into the war):

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (Off Camera): Finally, weapons of mass destruction, key goal of the military campaign is finding those weapons of mass destruction. None have been found yet. There was a raid on the Ansar al-Islam camp. A lot of people expected to find ricin there. None was found. How big of a problem is that? And is it curious to you that given how much control US and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven't found any weapons of mass destruction?

DONALD RUMSFELD: Not at all. If you think, let me take that both pieces. The area in the south and the west and the north that coalition forces control is, is substantial. It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat. Second, the kernel facilities, there are dozens of them, it is a large geographic area. It is the Ansar al Islam group has killed a lot of Kurds. They're tough, and our forces are currently in there with the Kurdish forces cleaning the area out, tracking them down, killing them or capturing them, and they will then begin the site exploitation. The idea from your question that you can attack that place and exploit it and find out what's there in 15 minutes. I would also add that we saw from the air there were dozens of trucks that went into that facility after the existence of it became public in the press, and they moved things out. They dispersed them and took them away. So there may be nothing left. I don't know that. But it's way too soon to know. The exploitation is just starting.

"Somewhat"? At least he was right about the "eploitation," you know, "just starting."

Now let's ask when it fucking ends.

Please.