Donald Rumsfeld, the man who was instrumental in defending the Iraq War, the man who perpetuated one categorical lie after another,[1] the man who has killed “400,000 people,”[2] is now dead. It was Rumsfeld who forthrightly declared that the removal of Saddam Hussein had “created a more stable and secure world.”[3] That was another lie from Rumsfeld. As one report suggests, Rumsfeld lied “as easily as he breathed.”[4] “He wrapped himself in a superficial understanding of epistemology (‘there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns…’) that a compliant press treated as sagacity. He wore a mask of assuredness, a con man’s trick, as he said things that bore no resemblance to the truth, such as his September 2002 insistence that he possessed “bulletproof” evidence of a nonexistent alliance between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.”[5]