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...administration’s six months of planning for the Iraq invasion had been a failure, according to Woodward. “This is not Nancy Pelosi, this is not some think tank, this is not some journalist,” Woodward said. “This is [Rumsfeld??s] guy.” After speaking for 20 minutes, Woodward then spent almost 40 minutes answering audience questions, which ranged from succinct queries of Woodward’s opinion to confrontational polemics. Woodward acknowledged the media’s culpability in the overestimation of Iraq?...
...interrogation undoubtedly feel that it is the best way to defend the U.S. against terrorist attacks, but their policy is short-sighted. It has been widely noted that U.S. interrogation abuses generate rage and a desire for revenge that is a boon to terrorist recruiters. Applying Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld??s famous metric, the administration may well be generating more terrorists than it is stopping. But there are two other consequences to U.S. interrogation policy that are less frequently noted...
...report last Friday, saying that “Gitmo” hosts “several hundred terrorists, bad people, people that if let back out on the field would try to kill Americans. That’s just a fact.” The trouble with Rumsfeld??s claim is that he assumes for himself the role of judge and jury, the ability to determine the guilt or innocence of Guantanamo’s inmates. Terrorists must be brought to justice, but before a suspect is deemed a terrorist and imprisoned indefinitely, he must be given access...
...shown only a sleek, “lean machine” image of a war that is organized into victories and losses. In contrast, the Gunners live in a world of anticipation and insecurity, and it is this disjunction Palace aims to explore. Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld??s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized by one soldier as guaranteed to “slow...
...outrage that torture has been so widespread under Rumsfeld??s watch. Rumsfeld and the Bush administration must take responsibility for the dehumanizing acts that have taken place at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and they must make sure that the use of torture has been completely and permanently stopped. As long as detainees’ rights are violated, we desecrate principles integral to our American identity—the same principles that we are supposed to be defending by waging a war on terror...