Q: A question on Afghanistan. The commanders there recently are expressing a lot of optimism on finding bin Laden. One even says he's (Inaudible.). Is there any basis for an increased optimism in that?
Rumsfeld: How does one answer that? We've got a terrific team out there in General Lawson and General Barneau and the Ambassador (Inaudible.). They're all working hard. I suppose what that may be a reflection of is their enthusiasm, the fact that they feel they're well organized and they're disciplined and they're working the problem, and they're hopeful. But I think neither one of them, or whoever said it, I don't know, but I doubt that either one of them if they had reasonably good intelligence would be making a statement like that and tipping off UBL that they were close on his heels.
So I think what you probably heard was a feeling of confidence in the people they've got working the problem and the enthusiasm they have and the contention they have that ultimately they'll find him. I've always believed ultimately they'll find him.
Can you believe it? At first I thought it might have been an Onion article. The entire scenario is strange...