Yup, remember the Domino Theory of the hard-right cold-warriors? The one that said that if we let Ho Chi Minh win in Vietnam it would be all over of the free world? That Communisnismum would spread like a cancer and infect our lust for fast cars, cola products, poodle skirts, bomber jackets, surfing, apple pie and a peek at June Cleaver's bustline?

Well, they've done it again, the old argument is back via, no surprise, an old cold warrior. Unfortunately he's also SECDEF and one of Preznit Butt-boi's best buddies, right after Unka TeaBag.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on Thursday against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely, saying it would be seen as a victory by extremists who want to control a region extending beyond the Middle East.

"If we left Iraq prematurely as the terrorists demand, the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing.

"And if we left the Middle East, they'd order us and all those who don't share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines," he said.

Oh, wait. No, they don't. They've managed to fuck this up as badly as the Bay of Pigs.