Via Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic (who still have yet to send me a copy of their magazine two months after the subscription was paid for…).
Update: Searching through the full archive of Rumsfeld papers (online here), I find this gem from May 2003, in a memo from Rumsfeld to the President:
Mr President, we were concerned that going to war in Iraq could alienate our allies in the Gulf – today, our relationships there are stronger than ever. There was concern about the US acting unilaterally. Instead, you formed a 65-nation coalition and in the process strengthened the bonds of friendship with Britain and many other nations in Europe, both old and new.
A glass half full kind of guy, then.
Update 2: Donald shows how to do interagency cooperation in a 2002 memo to Paul Wolfowitz:
Call Condi Rice. She said to me that we have got to get the detainee mess sorted out, that nobody is able to get answers. I think she is getting this from the UK. Call her and find out what she is talking about. She always comes in with these cryptic messages as though the Pentagon is messed up, and I don’t have any idea what she is talking about.
