text: why do some people still love rumsfeld even after making a mess out of the war in iraq? rumsfeld was an incompetent jackass who spewed his ideas to "stay the course" alongside bush. how can anyone respect a man who hardly ever listened to advisors and gave us the worst foreign policy fiasco since vietnam? he made a serious blunder when they disbanded the army. that was the blunder of the war. no infrastructure=anarchy. he refused to look at history. or listen to his advisors. he had a fast food war mentality. i dont love him. he was a poor leader.