Rumsfeld flip flopped on Iraq. He was for it but now says it was a mistake.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/donald-rumsfeld-apparently-forgot-times-he-urged-iraqi-democracy

President George W. Bush salutes as he leaves the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. OfficeOfWhiteHouseManagementPhotographyOffice/Flickr

A few days ago, Donald Rumsfeld tried to distance himself from former President George W. Bush on the Iraq War, noting that he never bought into the Bush-Cheney argument that a US invasion of Iraq would lead to democracy there.

"I'm not one who thinks that our particular template of democracy is appropriate for other countries at every moment of their histories," the former defense secretary told the Times, a British newspaper, in a piece published last week. "The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic. I was concerned about it when I first heard those words."

remarks: He, too, sold the invasion as a pro-democracy initiative. In May 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Rumsfeld appeared on CNN's Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer and he was asked about the future of Iraq. Rumsfeld told Blitzer that it would include a democracy similar to that of the United States: