[dragonwriter]

> Rumsfeld's got some great quotes, most of which were delivered in the context of explaining how the Iraq war turned into such a clusterfuck

If by “explaining how” you mean “deflecting (often preemptively) responsibility for”, yes.

[froggit]

> If by “explaining how” you mean “deflecting (often preemptively) responsibility for”, yes.

There's no reason to think you can't do both of those with the same statement.

[dragonwriter]

Abstractly, sure.

I’m characterizing what I recall Rumsfeld concretely doing, not what is abstractly possible for one to do.