Hitchens indicts Rumsfeld

Christopher Hitchens in todays Mirror examines Donald Rumsfelds legacy as Defence Secretary. He says: One does not get a second chance to make a good first impression, and it now looks as if almost everything that went wrong in Iraq went wrong right from the start. Surveying the hell that is todays Baghdad, who can avoid wincing at his offhand remark that “stuff happens?” The situation would be just as bad if he had not said that, but his breezy refusal to face facts had come to symbolize an Administration that did not learn from its mistakes.