Donald Rumsfeld, under fire from a platoon of retired generals who called for his resignation, went to attack by appointing himself a retired general.
Accompanied by a current general employees, who, as head of the Joint Chiefs of staff, is his usual shoulder, said: "As Minister of Defense, I think we should at least be on an equal footing with a retired general, and, after careful consideration, I decided to become one. "
A reporter then asked: "As a retired general, what is your opinion about Donald Rumsfeld?"
"I think he's doing a great job," Rumsfeld replied. "Actually, I think, as I said that no one is indispensable, there is always an exception to the rule."
"How about his handling of the war in Iraq?" Another reporter asked.
"What the war in Iraq?" Rumsfeld countered. "The war in Iraq was during the day we pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein. What is happening now is the post-war recovery.
"There are some who say they underestimated the resources that would be needed in post-war period. You can comment on this?"
"As a retired general, the post-war scenario is not my specialty. On the other hand, as the Secretary of Defense, I can say that while I used all my absolutely first-rate estimates are not clairvoyant . Therefore, I could not know in advance how many Sunnis, who were better under Saddam's tyranny, would rather destroy their country to live in peace with the Shia majority. Because he could not know that the two warring Muslim factions destabilize its country, could not foresee what we should seek to establish stabilization. Nor could I predict how many members of Al Qaeda would come in quickly and try to make the country self-destabilized the next frontier of their suicidal purpose of establishing a pan-medievalist Arab Islamic tyranny. "
"Want to change something in hindsight?" Another reporter asked.
"Sure, I would. Like everyone, I have clairvoyant hindsight. Firstly, I would have done a retired general for some time, so I could be the first to stand up for myself instead of taking all the potshots I had first realized how to divert them. Secondly, during the invasion, I would have dropped a ton of flyers against Iraq that predisposed people to peace. "
"What kind of flyers?" A reporter asked.
"Ones we, in the short term, was able to translate in their language with an English-Iraqi Shia + Sunni = Nice quiet country. Shias - Sunnis = Lots of dead."
"Do you think they would have flyers made the difference?" A reporter asked.
"Sure. While no paper is needed, would help these warring factions achieve if you can not live in peace with each other, we can not do anything, not kill each other."
The final question came from a journalist who asked: "Are you going to retire?"
"You missed the point" Secretary Rumsfeld said. "I have already retired. How do you think I became a retired general."
"I mean, you're going to retire as secretary of state?"
"I think a pension every decade or so is plenty, is not it?"
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