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I'm not calling Rummy an idiot, I have no opinion one way or the other, but what he accomplished here does not prove him to be a great military strategist." Conversely if the war had gone badly, it would have been hung around Rumsfelds neck. That is the name of the game. If you win you get the credit, if you lose, you take the fall. Rumsfeld won.
Fruitless to demean the horse standing in the victory circle after the race is over.
It's not demeaning to state that if we could not have rolled over Iraq something would have been terribly wrong with our strategy and organization. If a 15 year old beats up a 3 year old I wouldn't feel compelled to praise the winner's genius.