rummy's comic relief

spinmeister rumsfeld recently brought tears to our eyes when he rejected further use of the word "insurgency" and said he intends to replace it with an unwieldy phrase [ "Enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government. How's that?"] that perhaps by coincidence just happens to be the very definition of "insurgency."

his reason for doing it was a hoot in itself: calling it an "insurgency" makes it seem legitimate, he said.

in fact, calling the iraqi resistance an "insurgency" was part of our strategy to delegitimize it.

among our strategic failures, it was neither first nor last.