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...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s resignation on Nov. 8, however, marks a step in the right direction. With estimates as high as 650,000 Iraqi deaths since the war began in 2003, Rumsfeld’s hubristic view of himself in the Department of Defense (DoD) as omnipotent military orchestrator has led to nothing short of disaster. A war games simulation in 1999 suggested that more than 400,000 ground troops would be required in order to maintain stability in a post-invasion Iraq, but only about one-third of that number is there...
...numerous politicians from both major parties. Almost all his critics point to his arrogance, his refusal to acknowledge his mistakes, his lack of respect for the armed forces, and his officious inclination towards military micromanagement. Former Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki, the one lone voice in the DoD who had dared to challenge Rumsfeld’s theory of “light warfare,” was humiliated in public and had his successor named a year in advance of his retirement as punishment...
...prisoners of war in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Sexual humiliation, waterboarding, and the use of dogs were but a few of the innumerable cruel crimes perpetrated by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. The alleged subsequent cover-up within the DoD only further betrayed Rumsfeld’s authorization of and apathy towards the brutal mistreatment of foreign fugitives...
...DOD officials tell TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently set up a Pentagon task force, which meets once a week, to track Haditha and prepare for the eventual release of the investigations' results. But a Pentagon source familiar with the criminal investigation says that contrary to the suggestions of some media reports Wednesday, there have been no conclusions that the Marines deliberately killed unarmed civilians. This source also says that the bodies of those killed at Haditha have not been exhumed, which makes proving murder "very challenging...
Forty-five million dollars in federal grants to Yale University are under investigation by the federal government amid concerns about inadequate accounting practices at the school in New Haven. According to Yale administrators, the university received subpoenas from the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) late last week. The subpoenas requested material relating to a total of 47 grants. Yale, like other major universities including Harvard, relies heavily on federal funding for scientific studies and receives the bulk of its federal grants from the DOD...