Rumsfeld More Stubborn than Bush

July was the deadliest month ever in Iraq. More than 3,000 Iraqis died violent deaths. Or as Maliki said, "The violence is not increasing.... No, we're not in a civil war. In Iraq, we'll never be in civil war. What you see is an atmosphere of reconciliation." Baghdad Bob couldn't have said it better.

Or let's get even more detached. Here's Bush from his press conference last week: "You know, I hear people say, Well, civil war this, civil war that. The Iraqi people decided against civil war when they went to the ballot box."

It's sort of like saying, "The people of New Orleans know that the federal government loves poor black people." Because something has happened since then that makes you look, I don't know, out of touch now.

The morgue in Baghdad counted more than 1,800 bodies last month, which was a record high. Or a normal month in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. But this month, the morgue is on track to receive less than a quarter of that. Why? Because we've redeployed 8,000 U.S. soldiers and 3,000 Iraqi troops to Baghdad and sent them on house-to-house sweeps for militants and weapons caches. In other words, we've knocked Baghdad back from complete and total madness to borderline chaos.

Geez, it's almost like more soldiers works better. And it only took three years to figure this out.

Of course, the forces weren't added; they were moved from other parts of the country, which will now descend back into complete and total madness. Whack-a-mole, as they say.

Isn't this just more confirmation that Rumsfeld's plan was totally inadequate? And I don't mean that just as an attack. I just want to know how to get things right for when we invade Iran the week before the election.

Bill Maher is the host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" which airs every Friday at 11PM.