It's Halloween, things are scarey and
Donald Rumsfeld is being kept up at night.
Other than the thought of scarey Nancy Pelosi, what could be so troublesome that the man who called Iraq "messy" is having a hard time sleeping?
Could it be:
Reliving his, "six days, six weeks, certainly not six months" moment?
Pictures from Abu Ghraib, GITMO, Bagram and parts unknown marked Exhibits A- ZZZZZ?
Dreams of an ephemeral Dick Cheney inviting him on a grouse hunt?
We can rule out phantom limb pain and it is probably cynical to think that he is trying to lay the foundation for a somnambulism defense. With Rumsfeld's chaste view of veiled lies of weapons of mass destruction, enigmatic burqa wrapped of death squads for democracy, and hijab of talking points woven to deflect assaults and distributed to troops in lieu of adequate equipment and clean water - what could possibly make his eyes fly open?
Mr Rumsfeld said earlier this year that he was concerned by the success of US enemies in "manipulating the media".
"That's the thing that keeps me up at night," Mr Rumsfeld said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/... emph. added.
Ah.
A fear of chiroquacktors.
No real surprise that Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon fear the effects of spinal alignment. In what the President, VP, and Sec of Def describe as a war of ideas avoweled disconsonants are the enemy.
Thank goodness for the crack unit that has been assembled to "set the record straight." Fresh from their previous work, successfully protecting chain of command from accountability by "setting the records somewhere they can't be found" the blogmonitors (armbands on order) are embracing their new deployment and visualizing their post-Pentagon future with Pajamas Media (footies do come in cammo).
"We're looking at being quicker to respond to breaking news," [Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff] said.
"Being quicker to respond, frankly, to inaccurate statements."
Frankly, I'm glad. Quite a few things seem to have had a very slow or nonexistent response so far.
I wonder if some of these are on their list -
Iraq sought yellowcake from Niger.
Hussein was behind 9/11.
Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
Six days, six weeks, but certainly not six months.
No one could have predicted an insurgency and civil war.
The Iraq war is making the US safer.
The Taliban have been run out of Afghanistan.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are fulfilling their duties to their country and their troops.
There are only a handful of outside terrorists causing problems and taking Fallujah will solve all that.
We didn't go in to Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, we went in to free the Iraqi people (so they could volunteer to be stacked in naked pyramids and photographed for "Look What's Not Keeping The Secretary of Defense Up At Night").
Ahmed Chalabi - great guy, wonderful AEI dinner speaker, gave us lots of really good worthwhile reliable info before the war too.
LOOK MA! We found a mobile weapons lab!
The insurgents are in their last throes.
I never said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were located.
This story also explains the prior statements of Dr. Rice about the birthpangs of democracy. It seems the administration believes in outsourcing and privatizing the birthofanationpangs - - - - through the use of surrogates.
The unit would reportedly monitor media such as weblogs and would also employ "surrogates", or top politicians or lobbyists who could be interviewed on TV and radio shows.
Wonder what they mean by "top" politician?
Apparently that would be one that doesn't worry much about ghost prisoners and illegal domestic propaganda.
The House was haunted by them about 100 days this year and some may be back in January.
That's a bit too scarey a thought, even for Halloween.