Rummy Explained - Accurately

David Limbaugh puts Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testiness in perspective - I know I would be testy if I had idoits using 20/20 hindsight.

Is it any wonder Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a little testy -- if you can even call it that -- during his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee this week?

If the media and a slew of armchair quarterback politicians had persistently derided you like they have Secretary Rumsfeld, blaming you for every negative turn in the war and crediting you with none of its achievements, how warm and fuzzy would you feel toward them?

Almost every time Mr. Rumsfeld opens his mouth in public, people accuse him of arrogance, rudeness, evasiveness and insubordination to people who aren't even his superiors. Day after day, week after week, month after month, this brilliant, sagacious man is treated like a punching bag by people who couldn't hold his briefcase. We are talking about a man who is in his late sixties, independently wealthy, professionally accomplished beyond the wildest dreams of his detractors, and who has nothing personally to gain through his position.