Surreality

WASHINGTON -- US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday reached for a dictionary in a bid to take the sting out of an embarrassing leaked memo.

The document had warned the United States faced a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan, out of step with recent pronouncements by the Bush Administration that the war on terror was won.

Mr Rumsfeld burst into a regular Pentagon briefing by surprise, armed with what he said was the Oxford Dictionary's preferred definition of the word "slog".

"Slog: to hit or strike hard, to drive with blows, to assail violently," Mr Rumsfeld said. "And that's precisely what the US has been doing and intends to continue to do."

Asked if that was the definition he intended when he wrote the memo, Mr Rumsfeld grinned: "It's close enough for government work."

A damned circus, I tell you. Why does a picture of Rummy in fishnet stockings with garters, bustiere and a boa on stage with Brad, Janet, Rocky, et al., in Frank N. Furter's musical production come to mind here?

It is all becoming so ludicrous.

I shall await tomorrow's entertainment. (Sorry about you guys over in Iraq - not so funny there, is it?)

"I reread the memo in the paper and thought, 'Not bad'," Mr Rumsfeld said yesterday.

He said he had not ordered an investigation into who leaked the memo...

As perhaps he did it himself?

And how in the world can they (along with our buddy Sharon) be talking about placing the same obviously ill-advised and totally disastrous policy on Iraq into Syria and Iran?

Maybe it's because Cowboy Codpiece doesn't even read the news. Think he'll be surprised when he's out of a job?

They are all certifiable.

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.