So von Rumsfeld was charged with ordering torture while visiting France. And they thought the new government was a hundred percent neocon! This should make the applause even louder when he accepts the Claremont Intitute’s “Statesman of the Year” Award. Lew Regenstein recently sent me the online advertisement for the event (in honor of the mass murderer of civilians Churchill) with the thrilling news that Dick “Elmer Fudd” Cheney will be beamed in to the event by satellite. “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak will host this celebration of getting away with illegal wars and the mass murder of Iraqi civilians. No sign that Vanna White will accompany Pat.