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Rumsfeld develops Alzheimer's and criticizes the Obama Administration for following the lead on false intelligence

On Fox News last night, former Secretary of Defense - Donald Rumsfeld - engaged in the following back-and-forth with Greta Van Susteren regarding a speech Susan Rice (Ambassador to the United Nations) gave following the Libya attacks:

Rumsfeld: "I watched the presentation, and I thought it was amazing that someone in her position would go on with that degree of certainty, that fast and that authoritatively and be that wrong."

Van Susteren: "Do you think she was perhaps hung out to dry? Because I thought it was unusual that the ambassador of the U.N. would be making that appearance right after that event. I would have expected some other member of the administration, not the ambassador to the U.N."

Rumsfeld: "I agree. It would have been more likely that someone from the cabinet or the White House staff or the NSC staff might have said something. It may very well be that she was already scheduled and they just used her. But her - her presentation was demonstrated to be inaccurate within a matter of hours, which has got to be embarrassing."

I find this funny, coming from a guy who was at the center of pushing the U.S. into invading Iraq based on false intelligence - costing 4,422 soldiers' lives and $806 billion as estimated by the Congressional Research Service. It'd be like Rush Limbaugh criticizing a guy for divorcing as he's done it three times, Charlie Sheen criticizing another's drug use, George W. Bush criticizing someone for making grammatical errors or Mister Rogers criticizing someone for being too nice.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/02/941331/rumsfeld-susan-rice-embarrassing-libya/

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/12/15/what-did-the-iraq-war-cost-more-than-you-think

http://www.taps.org/uploadedFiles/TAPS/RESOURCES/Documents/FactSheet.pdf
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