It will come as no surprise that a few people will disagree with your wait before pointing approach.
Every error and fact needs pointing as it's happening. You can't wait until the dust settles before doing so, because everyone will just say "well, why didn't you say so at the time? It's a bit late now!"
When someone admits that they catagorically lied to the people that elected them, a lie that resulted in the deaths of many of their own people (not to mention the Iraqis that died) and when there are people still dying because of that lie then they should be brought to justice for their actions. Rumsfeld stated that there was clear 'intelligence' that Saddam was connected to Bin-Laden. Now he says he never saw any evidence.
The sad thing is that this lie is probably irrelavent. The American people were (understandably) in such a state after 9/11 that they would have attacked anywhere anyway.
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