Donald Rumsfeld gets away with saying so many different things in his logorrheac world that it is hard to keep track of how zany some of them really are.
Here's something he said in recent testimony before the US Senate.
Some lawmakers raised concerns about the loyalties of those Iraqi security forces, citing reports that insurgents have been infiltrating the Iraqi forces in significant numbers. There are ''continuing reports that the Iraqi police and security forces we're training are substantially infiltrated by insurgents," Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in questioning Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld responded, ''It's a problem that's faced by police forces in every major city in our country, that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force."
From Boston.com via Crooks and Liars
If true, and I suspect that most police departments in the country would be fairly amused by Rumsfeld's assertion, then we are in very big trouble. If it's so easy to infiltrate police forces around the country, then we ought to heed Rumsfeld's warning and take a very close look at our CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, as well as the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. How about the White House staff? Congress? the Supreme Court? Wouldn't all those be easy targets of criminal infiltration?
How safe do you feel now, knowing that all our major police departments across the country are infiltrated by criminals? Are we safer because Rumsfeld believes this, or because he warned us about it?
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