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Originally Posted by A264172
From what I have heard, his master, whomever that may be, asked for a way to get rid of Sadam. And what we got, is what Rummy gave him.
Rummy picked and chose the plan, rejected documented advice, and if he felt there was a problem, he had the oppourtunity to say so. Maybe his master said "Don, I know you think we can't win this thing, but I need you to prosecute it anyway." but I doubt it.
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Rumsfeld followed the advice one set of brass and did not follow the advice of another set of advice. It is easy to find folks on the losing side -- they are the ones on the outside looking. In general, people with a grievance who lost a bureaucratic fight always seek explanations outside of themselves. Sometimes they are right and sometimes not. History chooses winners and losers.
One way to look at it is like this: Honorable, strong men chose retirement in bureaucratic defeat than to fight for a plan that was flawed to begin with. From the safety of retirement they can exert influence more effectively. This POV naturally explains that the people who won the bureaucratic fight stayed in the military are merely automatons without the spine for a fight are there to do little more than rubber-stamp and draw paycheck.