After calling Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Iraq War "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable" in 2004, Rumsfeld agreed to be interviewed by Sir David Frost in 2011 and was happy to praise the network for its coverage during the so-called "Arab Spring."
Rumsfeld: "[Al-Jazeera] can be an important means of communication in the world ... I am delighted you are doing what you are doing."