Cheney: Rummy "Finest Ever" SecDef

"I believe the record speaks for itself -- Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense this nation has ever had." -- Dick Cheney, today

Ahem. For the record (from the Iraq Study Group):

• 3,000 Iraqis civilians are killed every month.
• 1.8 million Iraqis have fled the country.
• 1.6 million more have been displaced internally.
• Moqtada al Sadr's army has 60,000 troops.
• Kurdish peshmerga militas number 100,000.
• "Iraqi police cannot control crime, and they routinely engage in secarian violence, including targeted execution of Sunni Arab civilians."
• Shia have gained majority control of Iraq for the first time in 1,300 years.
• "Baghdad is run like a 'Shia dictatorship'"
• As many as 500,000 barrels of oil are stolen every day.
• The United States has already spent $400 billion on this war, and continues to spend $2 billion a week. Final estimates in the ISG report for the cost of the war run as high as $2 trillion.