Secretary Rumsfeld...theorized before another Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday that elections might be held in only "three-quarters or four-fifths of the country" because some regions are not yet secure enough."So be it," Mr. Rumsfeld said. "Nothing's perfect in life."
Rumsfeld is, of course, invoking the little known "Cliche Clause" of the Bush Doctrine. He could also have used section 3—"I'm Rubber and You're Glue"—on Kofi Annan when he called the Iraq war "illegal", and section 10&mdash"Takes One to Know One"—every time al-Qaeda calls the US "infidels" on al-Jazeera.
The New York Times--State Dept. Says Iraq Elections Must Be Held in All Regions
