I don't understand all the defense of Rumsfeld. I thought he was tactically a disaster from the moment he slashed the TOE going into Iraq. I think war should be fought with every resource you can bring to bear, not cheaply so that you can make it more politically palatable. When you try to make war on the cheap, you just pay larger installments.
Plus his postwar planning was a joke. I can't believe he bought into the neocon theory that postwar Iraq would be a cakewalk, but I have no other explanation for the failure to secure intelligence records, and government facilities going into Bagdad until after they'd been thoroughly looted.
Well I judge him as much by who didn't like him.
He came across as very tough and that's what you need dealing with the extremists.
The whole WOT has been conducted with the MSM and the Anti War crowd second guessing every move, for political gain and to hell with the consequences. They have forced us to fight PC and the mess is because of that.
The extremists are going to very happy to see Rummy go, they will see that as a victory and we should not be giveing them anything, this will just make them stronger and bolder.