Cuba Libre

Seems like a pretty significant difference of opinion in the top
levels of the current administration if the President and the Secretary
of Defense can’t even get their cover story straight.

PRESIDENT BUSH raised
the possibility for the first time of closing down the US
detention
facility
at Guantanamo
Bay.

Mr Bush, responding to heightened criticism, said that his Administration
was exploring all alternatives to imprisoning terrorist suspects at the
naval base in Cuba, which currently holds 520 prisoners

meanwhile….

"I know of no one in the U.S. government, in the executive branch,
that is considering closing Guantanamo," Rumsfeld told reporters,
within hours of Bush’s comments being broadcast in the Fox News interview.

However, on closer examination, it seems strangely reassuring that the
serious and sober SecDef doesn’t consider the goofy G-man as being "anyone
in the US Government". Even thinking that Dubya is really in control
of the apparatus of power is like believeing, in one of those impossible, hideous moments of unreal clarity, that the kid in the infant seat with the toy steering wheel is
really driving the car.

from ABC