# Donald Rumsfeld has passed away **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366 "2021-06-30T21:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lantern2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lantern2/32/3010_2.png) [@Lantern2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern2)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/21 "2021-07-01T07:08:33Z")
> **[How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/how-donald-rumsfeld-deserves-be-remembered/619334/)** > > America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret. A truly devastating obit by George Packer. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/22 "2021-07-01T07:30:22Z")
The memorial that Rumsfeld deserves, as stolen from Twitter; [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51283454085_4ab9490dd4_z.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51283454085_4ab9490dd4_z.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/23 "2021-07-01T08:49:10Z")
I can’t help but wonder what Hunter S. Thompson would write about him now. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/24 "2021-07-01T09:04:20Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > I agree that the known/unknowns analysis is sensible (If perhaps poorly conveyed) but at the time, as I recall it, it came across as scrambling for an explanation of why the war didn’t go the way that he was sure it would (eg, soldiers greeted with flowers). I found it a useful and concise way to explain the general concept, but a ridiculous way to explain why the Iraq War planning relied on such delusional premises. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/25 "2021-07-01T11:30:00Z")
Slam dunk for the Grim Reaper. Cocksure of himself, enabler of the dumbest war in history and of torture. Rummy the Dummy won’t be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/26 "2021-07-01T15:41:28Z")
John Dunne was wrong. I don’t feel diminished in the least. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/27 "2021-07-01T15:51:45Z")
> [@Lantern2](#): > > A truly devastating obit Thanks for linking to that. Devastating, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/28 "2021-07-01T16:34:44Z")
Rachel Maddow gave him an appropriate send off last night on her show. The only good thing I can say about him is that he had dachshunds. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/29 "2021-07-01T16:39:10Z")
I won’t miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/30 "2021-07-01T16:43:59Z")
He was always so perky. Instead of SecDef, he would have fit in better as a strip-mall dentist. But a perky warmonger was his and our destiny. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/31 "2021-07-01T17:24:29Z")
Eh, he got the wrong Donald. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/32 "2021-07-01T17:27:59Z")
Teen Vogue does not pull their punches > **[Donald Rumsfeld, Accused War Criminal, Dead at 88](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-rumsfeld-secretary-defense-accused-war-criminal-dead-88)** > > Rumsfeld is considered an architect of the U.S. invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/33 "2021-07-01T18:45:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Rachel Maddow gave him an appropriate send off last night on her show. > > The only good thing I can say about him is that he had dachshunds. The only good thing I can say about him is that he finally got me some points in this year’s death pool. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/34 "2021-07-06T14:02:24Z")
He’s going to meet his maker with the soul he has, not the soul he wishes he had. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366/35 "2021-07-06T14:09:02Z")
I’m sure he’ll be greeted with victory parades and flowers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-rumsfeld-has-passed-away/945366.md?page=1)