When US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is not saying "Golly Gosh" or "Henny Penny" or "the Sky is falling, he has other loco things to say.

Here is what he said in front of a Senate Committee hearing on Thursday, August 3, 2006. That is the same hearing, where he was pounced on by Senator Clinton.

“If we left Iraq prematurely, the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East. And if we left the Middle East, they’d order us and all those who don’t share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines.” And finally, he intoned, America will be forced “to make a stand nearer home.” (NYT)