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Just down the hall from Donald Rumsfeld's third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can 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...
Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush must therefore accept part of the responsibility for what transpired at Abu Ghraib and for the Pentagon’s efforts to hide it from public view. Voters should hold Bush accountable in November. And in the meantime, for the good of America, its troops and its citizens, Rumsfeld should look for a different line of work...
...this developing scandal is not a matter of a few “bad apples,” but rather the fault of this entire executive branch. For these horrific acts and the cover-up that followed, we echo the call of others and ask Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign...
...this administration needs to learn that democracy doesn’t mix with a policy of secrecy. Secretary Rumsfeld withheld information from Congress and the American public and attempted to obstruct CBS from releasing the evidence in the first place. If Rumsfeld had his way, would the atrocities have ever come to light? Would those responsible ever be brought to justice? The whole world is now asking what else might be going on behind the gates of American detention centers...
...Iraq. U.S. commanders on the ground chose instead to cut a deal, in recognition, perhaps, that the goal of militarily eliminating the insurgency before the U.S. goes home may be a bridge too far. For their part the insurgents clearly sense that, far from being "bitter enders" as Donald Rumsfeld likes to call them, they may in fact have a future in a new Iraq. That's precisely what the U.S. military wants them to recognize, believing that the insurgency is fueled in large part by Sunni alienation from the efforts of the Coalition...