Word: rumsfeldism
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...positive. By many measures, the U.S. enterprise in Iraq remains a chaotic, costly slog. The prison scandal has plainly made the goal of winning Iraqi hearts and minds remote. Last week's brutal videotaped decapitation of American Nicholas Berg, 26, showed again just how dangerous Iraq remains. Even Donald Rumsfeld, the embattled Defense Secretary, acknowledged at least the possibility that the grand American design for Iraq--a stable democracy at the heart of the autocratic Arab world--might end in failure. "Is it possible it won't work?" he asked rhetorically during testimony before the Senate last week...
Berg wasn't released until April 6, a day after his parents filed a federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claiming that their son had been transferred to U.S. military custody and was being detained without probable cause. Berg's father Michael, a staunch antiwar activist, now blames the Administration for his son's death while the U.S. military continues to deny it ever had custody of Berg. After he was released, the U.S. consulate offered to arrange for him to fly out of Baghdad, but he refused. Instead, he told friends and family that he planned to drive...
...week of congressional hearings, lawmakers struggled to trace the links in the chain of command. The White House, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and top brass in the Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize...
...have uncovered no paper trail, Senators were openly skeptical that Cambone and his bosses would have been in the dark about the procedures, since Miller reported directly to the Pentagon. Other Pentagon officials said Sanchez, at any rate, had never given anyone explicit permission to use such methods. And Rumsfeld told Senators that Pentagon lawyers had checked the rules thoroughly before judging Sanchez's list to be "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. But according to Scott Horton of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, several senior military lawyers went to him last May and October...
...Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who has no authority to issue military orders, encouraged Miller's trip. Some on Capitol Hill, where Cambone is unpopular, think he could take the blame if the scandal widens. But Cambone may be insulated. He has long been a key aide to Donald Rumsfeld, spearheading some of Rumsfeld's top causes--missile defense, modernizing the Pentagon and unifying intelligence operations--despite having relatively little intelligence experience...