Donald Rumsfeld is mad again. Yesterday he was pounding the podium on the subject of the insistence of the press on reporting what is going on in Iraq, rather than what the Administration hoped would happen:

I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it. I read eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest. And it just was Henny Penny -- "The sky is falling." I've never seen anything like it! And here is a country that's being liberated, here are people who are going from being repressed and held under the thumb of a vicious dictator, and they're free. And all this newspaper could do, with eight or 10 headlines, they showed a man bleeding, a civilian, who they claimed we had shot -- one thing after another. It's just unbelievable how people can take that away from what is happening in that country!

I, too, am amazed by the things that are being taken away in Iraq.

And, you say, “Well, what was it in the plan?” The plan is a complex set of conclusions or ideas that then have a whole series of alternative excursions that one can do, depending on what happens. And, they have been doing that as they've been going along. And, they've been doing a darn good job.

So the plan is to make it up as you go along? That explains a lot.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

And that is what this is all about: freeing Iraq, so that Iraqis may rob, kill and intimidate each other.