Rumsfeld: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Al-Qaida

You gotta love Rummy for his unflinching, blindly ironic insistence that Al Qaida is responsible for America losing the propoganda war in the Middle East -- not because the morally corrupt, detention-and-torture-inclined regime he works for has destroyed America's reputation as a nation founded on the protection of basic human rights, e.g., habeas corpus, speedy trial by a jury of one's peers, protections against of cruel and unusual punishment, etc.

He is apparently going for the gold as the supreme ironist of our time. Only recently, remember, he told us that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is like Hitler -- getting elected legally then consoldiating power once he got into office." Sort of like the Bush regime, of course, a fact completely lost on him.

Anyway, here's the opening graph on Rummy's latest comic sally:

Rumsfeld Says Extremists Winning Media War
By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer
February 17, 2006, 4:34 PM EST
NEW YORK -- Al-Qaida and other Islamic extremist groups have poisoned the Muslim public's view of the United States through deft use of the Internet and other modern communications methods that the American government has failed to master, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.

By the way, Rummy's going to be on with Charlie Rose tonight on PBS. Tune in and watch with horror and contempt as Charlie covers himself with shame as he fawns over Rummy in that pathetic way he employs with any and all powerbrokers of whatever stripe or moral complexion.
May I recommend that you keep the anti-nausea medications close at hand?