Maybe Rummy's Not So Dumb?

Ok, so I know I'm gonna get a lot of slack from my liberal friends for posting this, but I just read this and found it to be rather interesting. I don't want to open the whole Iraq can of worms, but I think this either suggests a.)Rumsfeld has repeatedly pejured himself, or b.)maybe Rummy isn't the one who fucked up the Iraq plans from the git-go.

U.S. military forces can best be used when the military mision is clear and achievable and when there is a reasonable exit strategy . . . When the main burden of the U.S. presence shifts to infrastructure and naiton builiding . . . we are into missions that are not appropriate.
- Donald Rumsfeld, January 2001 Senate Confirmation Hearings