Burning Rumsfeld

I am choosing to look up Donald Rumsfeld because this is a man in which i hear his name so much in the news and i really have no idea who or what he does. He is the secretary of defense and a Republican politician. He led the US invasion into Afghanistan. So i really don't like what hes doing already and i have only one hard fact on him. Within three hours from when the first plane hit on September 11 Rumsfeld raise the US offensive readiness to Defcon 3. The highest it has been for a 30 years. He also was the one who told the soldiers who were running the Abu Ghraib prisons. That they were to use sleep deprivation techniques if the prisoners did not talk. Mr. Rumsfeld seemed like he was having a good run and then it all kind of crashed on him. I am sure he did some good when he was Secretary of Defense, but he is shadowed with too many negatives to see. I am mentioning Rumsfeld because in Baghdad Burning he is mentioned a great deal because he has a lot to do with whats going on in the book.