Analysis: reluctance to take heed of warnings that did not fit in with his world-view continues to burden the US government two decades on
Donald Rumsfeld’s name will forever be associated with the biggest military fiasco in US history, the 2003 invasion of Iraq in pursuit of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, alongside the widespread use of torture that has dogged America’s reputation ever since.
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