Will, I think the answer to your question is also the source "event" of the political cartoonist. Recently, Rumsfeld pronounced the military in great shape even though a recently published Pentagon report and a commander in Iraq said otherwise.
I believe Toles was simply harpooning Rumsfeld for denying what his own people are telling him. Hence a memo from the Perfumed Princes in defense of the chief. That's my guess and 2 cents worth.
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