And then, when it comes to nitwits, there's Rummy.

Rumsfeld: Iraq Isn't In “A Classic Civil War At This Stage...Certainly Isn't Like Our Civil War”... | The Huffington Post:

We're now up to 275,000 Iraqi security forces, heading toward 325,000 by the end of the year. The president has announced a reconciliation process. He's working on it. He's a serious person. He's working with some of the neighboring countries to try to encourage the Sunnis to participate. He's worked with Sistani, the leading Shia cleric in the country, and had him support a reconciliation process, as well as support of the disarming of some of the militias.

So there's a number of good things happening. There are four provinces in the country where almost all the violence is occurring, and there are 14 where there is relatively little violence.

And so, amidst all of this difficulty, the currency is fairly stable, the schools are open, the hospitals are open, the people are functioning.

It's nothing but a “high level of sectarian violence,” Rummy says.

I don't know, Rummy. How dumb do you think I am? More to the point, how dumb do you think they are at West Point?

I'm only asking because I have right here in front of me the West Point Atlas of the Civil War. I've read it cover to cover more than once. And I'll be damned if I can find any maps of battles in Maine. Or Vermont or Massachusetts or Connecticut or Rhode Island. Or, for that matter, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin....

Oh well. You get the point. The currency was fairly stable, the schools were open, the hospitals were open, and the people were functioning.

But then, not to be too hard on poor Rummy - he does have nukes, after all - maybe he's got one thing right. Those guys in Iraq don't seem to have as many cool songs.

Mine eyes have seen the glory, dude.

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