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The new Rummy spin

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Here's the core of the matter:

Some Iraqis were jubilant. "The Americans are pigs. We will hold a celebration because this helicopter went down -- a big celebration," said wheat farmer Saadoun Jaralla near the crash site. "The Americans are enemies of mankind."

It was the third time guerrillas had brought down a U.S. helicopter since U.S. President George W. Bush declared major combat over in Iraq
on May 1. The Americans invaded in March.

"Clearly it is a tragic day for Americans," U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told ABC television. "In a long hard war we are going to
have tragic days."

But he said the United States would not be deterred and would win the war in Iraq.

Bush vowed on Saturday to stand firm and said leaving Iraq prematurely would strengthen the "terrorists" he blamed for recent suicide
bombings.

Rumsfeld said on Sunday: "I think the American people have a good centre of gravity. I think they get it. They would rather have us fighting
terrorists outside the United States of America than inside."

That last quote from Rumsefeld to me signals a new PR approach. We're so clever. We didn't go into Iraq because of Weapons of Mass Destruction. We didn't go into Iraq because they had any connection with terrorism. We didn't even go into Iraq to get rid of a horrible dictator. We went into Iraq so our troops there would act as a magnet for terrorists and would thus draw fire away fromt he homeland.

Oh boy. Excuse me while I puke. These people are totally devoid of morality.