A D-minus still passes, right?

I heard on the radio this morning that Rumsfeld said the insurgency could be going on for “five, six, eight, ten, twelve years.” Yet Veep Dick says the insurgency is in its “last throes.” Those must be long throes.

Rummy also changed the military’s mission over there. We’re no longer trying to stop the insurgents, you see. “We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win.”

That creaking sound is the bar being lowered yet again.

Rob

P.S.: A quote from Rummy's Greatest Hits, pre-war edition: "I can't say if the use of force would last five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that." Certainly not, like, twelve years.