Rummy In Wonderland

From Stars and Stripes, though it reads more like Lewis Carroll:

In response to a USA Today story Monday about a Marine Corps colonel in Iraq who said he repeatedly asked for 1,000 more Marines, Rumsfeld said such a request was not an indication that there are too few U.S. troops in Iraq.

"The idea ... that because somebody wishes they had more [troops] at a certain moment suggests the total number is wrong is a non sequitur, obviously a non sequitur," Rumsfeld said.

--http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30855

More vintage Rumsfeld "wisdom" below...

"There's 137,500 U.S. forces and a good slug of coalition forces, and how they are parceled out and allocated within the country of Iraq is for Gen. [George] Casey and Gen. J.R. Vines to determine," Rumsfeld said.

Myers, meanwhile, said that "more troops are needed, and they are being provided by the Iraqis. There's 178,000-plus of them."

Neither Myers nor Rumsfeld replied directly to a question about how many Iraqi security forces are actually able to operate independent of coalition forces, a query the defense secretary dismissed as "not a useful construct."

I love that, "not a useful construct." Unlike his and W's and Condi's and Bliar's Iraqmire, which is oh-so-useful a construction.