The Donald Rumsfeld World Tour

Whether he thinks he's a rock star or whether he's just trying to save the job many feel he should lose, The Donald flew to Iraq today (by surprise) and is speaking now with Gen Richard Myers.

While Rummy did his usual fire thing, Myers said one thing that was really dumb. To the GIs, he said, "I hope you haven't been tortured by the [Taguba Senate hearings] testimony..."

It just seemed like an extraordinarily bad choice of words. Yes, I can understand why GIs not involved in this mess who are just trying to do good jobs would be bothered. But tortured is a very bad word to toss around right now, eh, General?