[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Based on the demonstrated credibility of France, I see no reason whatsoever to believe a word of this report.

[goldstategop]

A report from Agence France Presse is as credible as a report from Reuters.

[steplock]

I was about to really start cussing our side for micromanaging (after Johnson/mcnamara/clark disasters) until I say WHO the report came from.

I didn't bother reading past that point.

[Wphile]

Well, actually this is based on a report that is going to be published in the New Yorker Magazine on Monday. Anyway, I expect to hear a lot of this: Rummy is the bad guy.

I'm not sure if it will be a full court press but this sort of thing seems to be popping up with greater frequency and will probably build some steam. The press need to have a bad guy and if the consensus is it's Rummy, then they will all go for it. They have already started with their peppering of questions concerning the length of the war and the assertion that we don't have enough troops.

The ones who really piss me off are the arm-chair generals - all retired - who come out of nowhere and lambaste Rummy for not having enough troops or some such thing. Rummy is trying to shake things up in the Pentagon and we all know that most people do not like change and that is particularly so in an organization such as the Pentagon I would think.