Rumsfeld Didn't Get The Memo

Yesterday Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki demanded that U.S. troops cease their cordon operation around Sadr City -- and the U.S. complied.

Donald Rumsfeld -- never the most reality-based member of the administration -- yesterday approved a plan to expand the size of the Iraqi Army.

Nobody appears to have told him that U.S. influence in that beleaguered country is not what it was a few short months ago.