"I've stopped reading newspapers"

add Donald Rumsfeld to the list of administration officials who don't like it when newspapers say mean things about them, so they quit reading. Wah.

A deepening rift at the Pentagon Rumsfeld's surprise visit to Iraq should help buoy troops, but DOD is still riven by the scandal. By Ann Scott Tyson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – The Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is exposing a Pentagon increasingly at war with itself, leading to a crisis of leadership even as tens of thousands of US troops risk their lives battling insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. For months, discord has been growing in Pentagon corridors over the Iraq war, as senior US military officers criticize what they see as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's risky war plan and the lack of a clear political end game.