The Wisdom of Donald

Rumsfeld explained it all. Here we thought it was to find Osama, WNDes, bringing down Saddam, exporting our form of democracy. Instead it was to strangle Iran.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that the United States must persevere in Iraq and Afghanistan to contain "the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran." Rumsfeld linked the costly and unpopular US efforts to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan to US concerns about Iran's nuclear program and its regional might, in an interview with the Pentagon's in-house television channel. He said those who believe that US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are too costly or are taking too long need to understand that "success in Afghanistan and success in Iraq is critical to containing the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran."

Three questions come to me after his interview:

1. was Iran a target all along?
2. what about Osama (though W has already stated he doesn't think about Osama anymore)?
3. the Pentagon has an in-house TV channel?