Bush and Rumsfeld Can't Agree on Iraq

So Ayad Allawi -- the US-appointed head of Iraq (let's not dignify him yet with the title of Prime Minister, as if he was anything other than a CIA-paid figurehead Bush signed off on) -- anyway, Allawi insists the Iraqi elections are gonna happen in January. Allawi concedes they "may not be perfect." Bush blithely dismisses the "persistent violence" as nothing to worry about.

But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld acknowledges the obvious fact that if the US can't even enter major cities in Iraq without risking life and limb, they can hardly oversee an election. His even blither comment?

"'Let's say you tried to have an election, and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country, but some places you couldn't because the violence was too great,' Mr. Rumsfeld said at a hearing on Capitol Hill, according to the New York Times. 'Well, that's so be it. Nothing's perfect in life.'"

How true.