He was there for just short of six years. Rumsfeld led the Pentagon in liberating two nations, kept American casualties extremely low and helped prevent further terror attacks on U.S. soil. The governments we helped the free peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq elect are still standing despite the best efforts of our collective enemies overseas and here in the States. He has his flaws, like any man, but to call him failed is absurd.
I don't buy it that you don't know what kind of person would go out and protest Rumsfeld. You've been around FR too long to not know better. You used to join us in protesting them. Now, you vote for them.