In the aforementioned Times article:

Rumsfeld said the fact that Iraq continues to fire on U.S. and British warplanes shows that Iraq's claimed willingness to open the country to weapons inspectors was ``patently false.''

Mind explaining that one, Rummy? I'm having a little trouble making the connection there.

(Y'know, for an administration with a supposedly "ironclad case", they pull out an awful lot of really, really stupid arguments.)