Flag blunder embarrasses Pentagon

Donald Rumsfeld confused Iraq with Afghanistan yesterday. Photo: Reuters

As the headquarters of the US department of defence, the Pentagon can boast close to 500,000 employees in more than 140 nations but today it saw attention drawn to its second mix up over countries in a week.
Shortly after the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, confused Afghanistan with Iraq at a news conference, the US embassy in Bucharest had to apologise to the president of Romania, Ion Iliescu, for the Pentagon decorating his table with a Russian flag when he lunched with Mr Rumsfeld earlier this week.

We all know Rumsfeld is psychotic, now he's going senile too?

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