Rumsfeld's hair not on fire

I couldn't listen to the Senate Armed Services grilling of Rumsfeld, but Phil Carter did. McCain is scathing. Carter also comments on Lieberman's ridiculousness, basically, that nobody apologized for 9-11, so we should be excused a little brutality now and then.

Is it not beyond belief that Rumfeld still hasn't read the Taguba report? I mean, even I have. What the hell is wrong with the guy? How did he prepare for today's testimony?

Carter also wonders why the Pentagon would choose now to put Taguba under a bureaucratic rock.

And the Wall St. Journal reports that the Red Cross delivered to the Bush administration a report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in February.

"The February report, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, presents a portrait of prisoner treatment in Iraq that is at odds with statements by administration officials that abuse wasn't condoned by military commanders and was limited to a handful of low-ranking soldiers.

"Instead, the report says, information gathered by the ICRC 'suggested the use of ill-treatment against persons deprived of their liberty went beyond exceptional cases and might be considered a practice tolerated by' coalition forces."