The world is now getting acquainted with the Fedayeen Saddam, the thugs who are keeping Iraqi citizens in check, most vividly right now in the cities of the south. Western estimates of their strength vary--on Thursday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put their size at "probably somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000"--but Iraqi opposition sources say they number at around 50,000….

--Kanan Makiya’s War Diary in The New Republic, 3/29/03

Another irresponsible misjudgment by Donald "The Ego Has Landed" Rumsfeld?