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...photographs of U.S. troops humiliating Iraqi prisoners inside one of Saddam's most notorious torture chambers were used on Capitol Hill as an opportunity to highlight problems of executive decision making over a number of aspects of the mission in Iraq. And the buck has, not surprisingly, landed at the door of the architects of the mission - Rumsfeld and the civilian leadership at the Pentagon...
...Critics of the administration see the isolation and vulnerability of the American mission in Iraq right now as a product of policy choices personified by Rumsfeld: the aggressive unilateralism that has left the U.S. unable to attract significant allied participation; comments questioning the application of the Geneva Convention in instances where the enemies of the U.S. are deemed terrorists; and, most importantly, a capital-intensive war plan that has left America short of troops to pacify Iraq. Just as the plaudits poured in for the Defense Secretary following the lightning victory for the U.S. forces that captured Baghdad in three...
...officials in the Arab media, and in the congressional testimony by Secretary Rumsfeld and some senior military officers, has been to paint the Abu Ghraib abuses as an abhorrent and unacceptable aberration, the work of a few bad apples who have sullied their uniform and endangered the overall U.S. mission. Both the president and his defense secretary have made clear that the very process of inquiry now must serve as an exemplar to the Iraqis and the Arab world more generally of America's good intentions, and the principles of democratic accountability...
...them). And there's the grandmother of the idea, Dream Dinners, a company based in Snohomish, Wash., that was launched in 2002 as a monthly gathering of the friends of former caterer Stephanie Firchau and has blossomed into 32 franchises across 11 states from California to North Carolina. "Our mission is really to get families back to the dinner table," says Tina Kuna, Firchau's partner and a mother of three kids, ages 8, 16 and 18. "I think society was just screaming for something to help relieve one of the stresses...
Bush's reaction to the CIA's prewar briefing on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction is instructive. According to Woodward, the President isn't impressed with the evidence--but this doesn't seem to cause him a moment of doubt about his mission to rid the world of Dr. Evil. No, he's concerned about the looming sales job. "Nice try," he tells John McLaughlin, the deputy CIA director. "I don't think this is quite--it's not something that Joe Public would understand or would gain a lot of confidence from...