For some reason I don’t think Rumsfeld had in mind Washington’s concern over foreign entanglements when he brain farted out his sense that Britain may not be fully supportive of the US in Iraq. It is equally sure that he wasn’t thinking at all. When a staunch ally like Tony Blair is putting himself on the line for us, pulling a Tonya Harding is pretty stupid.
I always assumed this administration would do a bunch of dumb things leading up to a war, but they are truly reaching new levels of incompetence now.