Rummy for politics

Okay, this is all just too much out of the blue. After yesterday's post listing all the many controversial statements by Rumsfeld since the Sotu, and now more this morning, this has to be intentional.

Somebody must have gone to Rumsfeld and said, "Don, we need you to make some headlines . We don't like the news that's currently out there, so go and bump some of that off the front page."

From Munich:

(Reuters)

"Any argument that Iraq might have been a trigger (for terrorism) is inconsistent with the facts," he said.....

He described Iran, ..... as the worst sponsor of terrorism on the planet.

(AP)

"The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism," he said in prepared remarks. "The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran." ....

"They(terrorists) seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent," he said. "They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire."

My point is, that prior to this week, when was the last time Rumsfeld was allowed by the administration to say anything? And now, suddenly, all this, conveniently following the tepid reception of the Sotu.

(by the way, has anybody else noticed how little coverage there has been of Bush's 4 city speech tour following the Sotu?)