Was it Rumsfeld's idea to fight a politically correct counterinsurgency in Iraq, or Colin Powell's, or President Bush's? Whose idea was it to leave Iran and Syria off-limits as no-go sanctuaries for the terrorist "insurgents"? I seem to recall that the State Department was given a huge role in running the occupation, and that Paul Bremer - who everybody acknowledges made a ton of serious mistakes there - wasn't exactly Rummy's man.
I think hanging all the blame on Rumsfeld for what the leftist media and defeatist Democrat party have spent three years selling as a "quagmire" in Iraq is a copout. Furthermore, the United States military is not losing in Iraq. They just haven't been allowed to do what's necessary to win. Maybe now they will be, if our beloved lazy, easily distracted public will show some backbone.
Hindsight is 20/20, of course.
See #69