Rumsfeld's fantasy.

Editor.

Donald Rumsfeld claimed in an op-ed in your pages tonight that "the vast majority of the Iraqi people want the coalition to succeed." But according to a Program on International Policy Attitudes poll taken in January, 2006, "nearly half of Iraqis approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and most favor setting a timetable for American troops to leave."

Rumsfeld confuses Iraqis' wanting "better futures for themselves and their families" as an argument for continued American violence in Iraq. He would do better to listen to his own troops serving there, an overwhelming 72% of whom polled by Zogby International in February, 2006, "think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year." Of course Rumsfeld listens only to himself, so let the blood flow.