Quote of the week

Rummy was asked to define the difference between "sectarian violence" and "civil war" in Iraq.

He begins with a dreadful load of waffle.

Rumsfeld - "It's a good question and we've been trying to look for a way to characterise... what are the ingredients of a civil war and how would you know if there was one... and what would it look like... and what might be it's progression.. either up is increased violence or down to be less violence and it's a hard thing to do and people are analysing that and thinking about it."

And then finishes with a bombshell.

Rumsfeld - "And I think, until I've had a chance to think about it, I'll say that I don't think it will look like the American Civil War".

So, in the last three years of carnage, Rummy hasn't even considered what civil war will look like - other than it won't look like the American Civil War. Way to go!