Rumsfeld was pressed to explain the U.S. military's plan to respond in the event that Iraq's sectarian violence grows into a full-fledged civil war.

"The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the — from a security standpoint — have the Iraqi security forces deal with it, to the extent they are able to," Rumsfeld said.

uhm, what? Sounds a lot like they're building a ready-made excuse for pulling out. "No no, it's not cutting and running like that traitor Murtha wanted. But this is an internal issue for the newly established Iraqi government and it would be wrong of the US to interfere. So, yeah, we're taking our troops home."

Brilliant.

Rumsfeld, Rice Say Iraq Not at Civil War - Yahoo! News