[Alissa]

Regarding Rumsfeld, I thought he looked humiliated. Whatever you can say about him, he's steadfast and NOT a quitter.

Also, Finnigan2 is wrong, he will still have to face these lynch mob committees even as a retiree. The only silver lining to this is that he'll be able to rip them apart in the hearings. He so much smarter and he has nothing to lose.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

Well, looks can be deceiving.

[finnigan2]

"Also, Finnigan2 is wrong, he will still have to face these lynch mob committees even as a retiree."

- Oh, I'm sure that his enemies will try to drag him before their hearings if only to try and belittle, smear and lecture him with sarcasm and accusations so as to delight their left wing base. But maybe, as a civilian, Rumsfeld won't have one hand tied behind his back by having to be careful not to violate administration solidarity and not create waves.
I think that Rumsfeld unleashed to express his own views will be quite a handful, especially for a small minded bigot like "Nostrils" Waxman.