I'm not "celebrating" as you put it...I've JUST always felt Rumsfeld was way over his head as a wartime SECDEF and, like McNamara before him, just could not rise to the occasion...HOWEVER as a previous poster pointed out, Rumsfeld did good job in rebuilding the military handed to him by the Clintons and he did a pretty good job preparing it to enter the 21st Century when he was Ford's choice way back in the 70s. But, I think you'll admit if you really search the logic God gave you he was a lightening rod for everything that went wrong in Iraq...and things such as autopenned letters of condolences to loved ones of the one or two fallen soldiers each day, when hand-written ones are called for, didn't exactly endear him to the public. Neither did the "go to war with the Army you have" comment to a soldier concerned about vehicle armor to protect himself and his buddies in the midst of IEDs exploding around the battlefield!
And now Gates will be it.
You think the lib appeasers will now love fighting terrorists?
Cheney and Bush are huge lightning rods.
It would be best if they step down too.