I was in favor of invading Iraq. The US was ultimately successful on the battlefield, but Bush should have replaced Rumsfeld sooner. It's hard for me to reconcile the word "successful" with the 4,000+ US deaths, which should have been much lower.
a failure by the leadership to BEHAVE as we are doing the right thing.
Rumsfeld: "It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it. As you know, you go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.---You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up..."
Rumsfeld was speaking as if he was doing the right thing, but IMO he was not. If you think that statement helped the Republican cause politically, you and I will have to disagree.
Rumsfeld blew it.