During the summer of '06, Rumsfeld told a Senate commitee that, with respect to Iraq, I have never painted a rosy picture...and you would have a dickens of a time trying to find instances when I have been excessively optimistic - yet even though this assertion was a lie easily refutable via 30 seconds on Google (among many examples, here is Rumsfeld, April 2003: It could last six days, six weeks, I doub