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...years, I am very glad to be part of Europe's rising fortunes. Even though at times it looks improbable, the E.U. keeps advancing. Marcelle Viale Nice, France The Army We Have TIME said a reporter helped army specialist Thomas Wilson craft the question he asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about U.S. troops having inadequately armored vehicles [Dec. 20]. That should in no way detract from the seriousness of the shortages and the problems that our troops are facing in combat in Iraq. It does not make Rumsfeld's answer - "You go to war with the Army you have" - less...
...Army We Have TIME said a reporter helped U.S. army specialist Thomas Wilson craft the question he asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about U.S. troops having inadequately armored vehicles [Dec. 20]. That should in no way detract from the seriousness of the shortages and the problems that our troops are facing in combat in Iraq. It does not make Rumsfeld's answer?"You go to war with the Army you have"?less callous or arrogant. And it certainly does not make the deaths and horrific injuries suffered by our troops less real or less painful to bear because they lack...
...military-personnel policy, says that while "the going will be tough" in the months to come, the Army has the tools to keep its force properly manned. "The war on terror strikes home with everybody," he says, "and it motivates them to come on board and stay with us." Rumsfeld and Byrne believe that there is enough goodwill among young Americans out there to fill most of the ranks--and enough money to lure in the rest. Mills, the wounded Army reservist, is the kind of American they're counting on. "My buddies are expecting to be deployed again...
Graner's attorney has said his client and the other MPs are "scapegoats." But the presiding judge has refused defense attempts to subpoena higher-ups like Donald Rumsfeld. The Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA are still investigating prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay, but no high-ranking official has faced charges so far. Some have even been promoted. --By Mitch Frank
...veiled from the force of law, that matters most. The actual, free exercise of power, distant from its dolled-up rhetorical intent, betrays and cancels the original intentions of its architects. The blood stains at Abu Ghraib, and the flattening of Falluja, and not the confident speeches of Rumsfeld and Bush, expose the true intentions of America’s extension of power...