From the transcript of Rumsfeld’s “Town Hall” meeting with the troops in Iraq. Just after Rummy called himself “a survivor”:

I’ve stopped reading the newspapers.
(Laughter, cheers, applause.)

Chilling. Is there anyone left in the Bush administration that cares what’s going on in the world?

Rummy goes on to point out in the same speech that during the Civil War two or three thousand soldiers died in numerous battles. I’m not sure what his point was, but it sounded like he was telling the troops they shouldn’t start worrying until they’re being killed by the thousands. That’s what we call the old Rummy morale booster.