Wow

Brace yourself. This may actually make you like Rumsfeld. A bit.

Rumsfeld sees no link between Iraq, 9/11

In a way, Rumsfeld stated the obvious. There is a laughable amount of evidence to support the connection. Except that 69% of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was probably involved in the 9/11 attacks. Partially because everyone else in the Bush administration has either strongly hinted or come out and said there is a connection. (The AP article has some good examples.)

I'm not sure why Rumsfeld was being honest. Is he planning on leaving soon? Did he slip up? Does me--it pains me to think this--have integrity? I can't wait to see if there's going to be any fallout from this in the next few days. What do you do when one of your chief spokesmen says something exactly the opposite of what you've been saying for the past year?