unlike his predecessors, secretary of defense, robert math tomorrow, who supervised the vietnam war, who expressed regret for his action subsequently. rosalind jordan takes a look back at a deeply controversial career. donald rumsfeld was rationed, braces, infamously, so it's critic say the combination was the former u. s. defense secretaries undoing during the worst days of the us war in iraq. rumsfeld take, he was right. his critics were wrong and they couldn't stand it. rumsfeld was a survivor of washington politics. he made history as both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. and he did the bidding of for republican presidents in 1983 president ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try to broker closer ties with saddam hussein. but 2 decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld, who argued saddam had to go in rejecting the president ultimatum the iraqi regime has chosen war over peaceful design. and the us led war was the way to that happened. he and other bush administration officials accused a rock of helping to plan the september 11th attacks, which it did not rumsfeld, also accused rock as possessing weapons of mass des