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To: Win Smith who wrote (166683)	8/6/2005 3:00:46 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

At a Pentagon news conference on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended this approach of describing the Iraqi units' abilities in general terms only. "It's not for us to tell the other side, the enemy, the terrorists, that this Iraqi unit has this capability, and that Iraqi unit has this capability," Mr. Rumsfeld said. "The idea of discussing weaknesses, if you will, strengths and weaknesses of 'this unit has a poor chain of command,' or 'these forces are not as effective because their morale's down' - I mean, that would be mindless to put that kind of information out." lol, Rumsfeld likes to pretend that the Iraqi military isn't infiltrated with insurgent sympathizers and that the insurgents don't know more than he himself does about the Iraqi military state of readiness. He is just keeping this info from his American supporters, no one else. Of course, that assumes that he himself has legitimate info.