So, which Iraqi Army are you talking about exactly?

So, Donald Rumsfeld was before the Senate Appropriations Committee answering questions on Iraq. And the question that is understandably on everyone's mind was asked, and then answered by Rumsfeld. What is the US strategy in the case of a Civil War in Iraq?

The U.S. military will rely primarily on Iraq's security forces to put down a civil war in that country if one breaks out, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told lawmakers yesterday....

"The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the . . . Iraqi security forces deal with it to the extent they're able to," Rumsfeld told the Senate Appropriations Committee when pressed to explain how the United States intended to respond should Iraq descend wholesale into internecine strife.

Okay, so we're talking about the same Iraqi Army that has been unable to even make a dent in the roughly 20,000 Sunni and foreign insurgents in three years? But now it's suddenly going to be able to take on half a million men in a civil war?

The same Iraqi Army that is in such disarray that it has zero units capable of operating without US logistical support? Niggling little logistical items like transportation, ammunition, fuel, food and drinking water. That Iraqi Army?

That's your plan?!?