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Donald Rumsfeld: George W. Bush Was Wrong About Iraq

The former U.S. defense secretary says that the former president was mistaken to insist on trying to “fashion a democracy in Iraq.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks during a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, in Washington, DC, March 23, 2004.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks during a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, in Washington, DC, March 23, 2004.

Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg
David Knowles

When it comes to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, hindsight continues to turn up its share of surprises. 

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the staunchest defenders of the Iraq war, said in an interview with the Times of London that his boss, former President George W. Bush, was wrong to try to create democracy onto Iraq.