Rumsfeld was also shocked when Bush failed to deliver on his campaign promises to increase the defense budget. He had to cover for him too. He was also opposed and continues to oppose quietly, so as not to appear openly insubordinate, of the insane Moscow Treaty. And he does it in coy ways. Like just flagrantly saying 'well now we trust the Russians' ... even though we have no good reason to trust their NUCLEAR intentions and their capabilities which they continue to refine, and proliferate, are still dangerous FIRST-STRIKE threats even if the country was headed by Pope Paul. And with the SS-18 and Mirv decisions, they have more or less openly said they are disregarding the Moscow Treaty that GWB wants signed so badly.
And do you wonder why no one is concerned? It is because we don't CARE what they do with these because it allows us to march ahead with SDI. The goal here, my friend, is not to disarm anyone, because that never works. It is to get out of the entangling alliances that prevented us from using SDI. The Moscow Treaty will, however, probably result in overall reductions.
Tell me, did you have the same hysterical reaction when Reagan and Gorby got rid of SS-20s? I know they were destroyed, because I have a friend who served on the commission that physically cut them up!