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...SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to a year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge; in the first court-martial stemming from the abuse of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad. Sivits pleaded guilty to taking pictures of naked prisoners being humiliated. Three other soldiers were also arraigned last week...
President Bush is now in danger of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison horrors engulfing U.S. strategy toward Iraq at the very moment he faces huge last-chance political and military decisions there...
...with challenges before, Bush has met them with his characteristic mix of action and resolve, and he has been following a similar pattern. At the very moment that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under the heaviest fire from lawmakers (and from many in the Bush Administration) for mishandling the prison fiasco, Bush paid a rare visit to the morning meeting of his senior White House staff members and told them to button up. "If I hear any speculation coming out of the White House about the Secretary," he said, "you'll answer to me." Early last week Bush marched over...
...talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting the job done," Bush said. "You let me worry about the politics and the things back here...
...court that none of the other 13 had done anything wrong, crying, "I'm a sick person and a liar!" Shock turned to anger, however, when the presiding judge - acting against even the prosecutor's recommendation - released only one of the seven of those 13 defendants still in prison. Since Grenon, one of the four admitted...