Swampwater

Since civilization was already over (see below) I waded into the fetid waters of Fox News Sunday this morning. Rumsfeld was the guest and, to my surprise, was fairly aggressively questioned - aggressively by the dismal standards of the modern corporate media anyway. Since he also appeared on Meet the Press, giving similar answers, I may conflate a few of his anwers in the following, but here are some lowlights:

...I don't make those decisions.

Said specifically about troop levels in Iraq, but pretty much his answer to anything that might imply personal responsibility of any sort. Others: torture - Bush decided that, cost of the war - Wolfie must have been just freelancing, etc.

As usual he was bobbing and weaving with all the speed his seven-decade plus mind could manage. What a coward and what a liar!

When the subject turned to GITMO and the rest of the Bush Archipelago, his usual line of bull took a slightly comic turn:

... [the prisoners] are suicide bombers, terrorists... bad people...we are releasing hundreds of them...[some] have shown up on the battlefield [fighting against us again].

More interesting to me was the roundtable discussion. Juan Williams allowed that Karl Rove's statement that:

...liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

might have been a bit over the top, and [Brent the] Bozo interrupted to dissent. At this point things got really interesting, when Bill Kristol (whom I usually think of as a dependably facist minion of Richard Mellon Scaife) quite correctly stated that the more objectionable Rove remark was:

...Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast[the foregoing does not appear to be true], certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

and that this was well over the line. This clearly enraged Bozo, but I can't remember quite what imprecations he uttered.