In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, he also singled out ex-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for criticism. He lays the blame for the chaos engulfing
Former Tory defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind also backed Sir Mike's intervention. He told the BBC: "I think one of the most fundamental criticisms is not just that Rumsfeld was incompetent - which he was - but it was actually his boss, George Bush, who actually made the extraordinary decision to put the Pentagon and Rumsfeld in control of political nation-building after the actual war ended."
[Leicester Mercury]
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