He would say that the White House was out of touch with reality , that the reconstruction effort in Iraq was '' beyond pitiful , '' that he had lost confidence in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld , that we were losing the war and had destabilized the Middle East , that the United States was getting '' bogged down '' in Iraq the way it had been in Vietnam .
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