Rumsfeld (and the entire Administration - for that matter) are Incompetent Boob Heads

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want." - Donald Rumsfeld in response to a question concerning the lack of armour in Humvees to be used by troops heading out to Iraq.

What a fuckin' disingenous answer. Really. Because the guy is absolutely right, sort of.

What good old Rummy didn't mind to mention, however, is that that only applies during a war of necessity.

If you're attacked and have no choice but to respond immediately, you absolutely do not get the leisure of planning out your strategy, making sure you have sufficient arms, sufficient troops, robust logistical lines and all that. You go to war with what you have, just like Doolittle's raid in Tokyo or the entirety of World War II for that matter.

Ah, but in a war of choice, where you have the leisure of time and planning, you don't go to war with the army your have, you go to war with the army you want (or, at the very least, need) to get ALL of the job done.

After all is said and done, Iraq was not a war of necessity, it was (is) a war of choice.

That Rummy, his boss and all the other right wingers in the Administration could not even properly plan out their neat little white man's burden of a war speaks volumes of the incompetence brought about by the rigidity of their ideology. (Think of the new lighter, faster army.)

And American and Iraqi troops in the battlefield have been left to pay for their sins.