We are RULED by Foreigners!! Ah, um, what I meant to say was..."Dapper Don" Rumsfeld talks about Iraq, by talkin' about Korea!! In an effort to get the bad taste of his appearance on Meet the Press out of his mouth, amateur Robert McNamara impersonator, Donald Rumsfeld writes an op-ed piece in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19RUMS.html?ex=1080716430&ei=1&en=ffc6856549a79537Rumsfeld defends the decision in Iraq, by spending the bulk of the article defending U.S. policy in Korea. I missed that part of our history where the ghost of Voltaire came back to handle Foreign Policy P.R., "If the Cold War did not exist, it would be necessary to create it -- for bad analogy purposes alone" [It would help if you provide a cheesey french accent when reading that quote]. That's right, the Bush Administration's highest officials are now to the point where they don't even evade the question -- they just start the evasion from the get go. Damn, they're clever AND Pavlovian. To paraphrase Atrios, "Preznit give me Milk Bone". For the love of God, please let me never see the Rovian Pavlovian Slobber response (Behavioral Scientists, alert the journals, I've given you a title for your next refereed publication). Rumsfeld makes me believe we Americans may be under the rule of a foreign cabal when he writes: "Americans do not come easily to war, but neither do Americans take freedom lightly." There you have it, if the premise above is true, then the Bush Administration is not comprised of Americans, but citizens of another land. Frankly, I suspect the Finns, they've always been known as the most conniving of the Scandinavians -- well, next to the Danes and Norwegians of course. I can see them now, in the White House, with their little shrine to Paavo Nurmi just off the Blue Room. Epäaitos!!!* *allegedly Finnish for Bastards.