Newsweek Editor: Rumsfeld ‘ In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’

[kpete]

Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’
Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria ripped into Donald Rumsfeld this morning on ABC’s This Week.

If I were running against conservatives, I would make up a campaign commercial almost entirely of Donald Rumsfeld’s press conferences, because the man is looking — I mean, it’s not just that he seems like a bad Secretary of Defense. He seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he’s living in a different world, not a different country.

Zakaria may have been referencing Rumsfeld’s “glib” remarks last week when asked whether Iraq was getting “closer to a civil war“:

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, I don’t know. You know, I thought about that last night, and just musing over the words, the phrase, and what constitutes it. If you think of our Civil War, this is really very different. If you think of civil wars in other countries, this is really quite different. There is - there is a good deal of violence in Baghdad and two or three other provinces, and yet in 14 other provinces there’s very little violence or numbers of incidents. So it’s a - it’s a highly concentrated thing. It clearly is being stimulated by people who would like to have what could be characterized as a civil war and win it, but I’m not going to be the one to decide if, when or at all.

VIDEO AT:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/30/rumsfeld-deranged/

[sallyseven]

1. QWhat took him so long? We have known that

for 5 years.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Remove the word slightly, replace with extremely...

and it is a very accurate statement. I've always respected Fareed Zakaria.

[im10ashus]

3. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Something the rest of us have known for a long, long time.

[HereSince1628]

4. Well, he'll be dissed and dismissed by Bushbots because of his ethnicity.

So although it was good to hear it really won't do much.

Setting the Iraq nonsense aside, how can Rummy work in Virginia and not realize that most of our civil war was fought in Virginia and three other southern states? Does he know that we are stupid, does he know we aren't stupid, or does he know he doesn't he know that he doesn't know that we are not stupid?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Oh come on, let's call a spade, a spade

Rummie is stark raving mad.

[Toots]

6. "but I’m not going to be the one to decide if, when or at all."

Kind of like Bush* saying it will be up to the next President to fix Iraq.