I've never liked Donald Rumsfeld. I've always seen him as a sneering, arrogant warmonger who holds contempt for international law, diplomacy and basic humanity in contempt. His visit to Iraq has confirmed all of those prejudices and inflamed some more. Despite having admitted he's responsible for the torture which occured in Abu Ghraib Prison, he seemed to treat the whole thing as a bit of a joke in which he is the "survivor". Imagine how the world would react if footage emerged of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Ansar Al-Islam, joking about the execution of Nicholas Berg. But of course no-one's going to draw that comparison.

I can't help thinking that all it would take to finish the bastard of is one pissed-off Iraqi with an RPG. One shot. That's that. Go on. Make my day.