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...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld went before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to explain his department’s role in the prisoner abuses exposed at Abu Ghraib. In his testimony, he made the pledge that “everyone in Iraq who was a military person” would be “treated subject to the Geneva Conventions...
...Rumsfeld was lying, or at least bending the truth. The Bush administration has long held—much to the dismay of the world—that militants fighting for international terror organizations such as Al Qaeda, are unlawful combatants, and thus not subject to the protections of any international agreements. Indeed, of the dozen non-Iraqis removed from Iraq, all of them reportedly had links to terror groups or had entered Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 to engage in terror or aid the insurgency. But defining fighters as unlawful combatants is a slippery slope to descend...
...that Bush is to blame for everything from the Ku Klux Klan, to eviction notices, to Osama Bin Laden. The most troubling image in the entire video is actually of Bin Laden, who is revealed to be a paper tiger on a soundstage along with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. This attitude, conflating one of the most dangerous and determined enemies we have ever faced with a harmless fabrication, is precisely the kind of dangerous naiveté that allowed September 11th to happen in the first place...
...Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee he “would certainly think it was worthwhile” for the U.S. to invade Iraq to achieve regime change. In those heady early days of Bush’s reign, Wolfowitz and fellow administration neocons Armitage, Perle and Rumsfeld tirelessly pushed for the U.S. to arm and lead an Iraqi opposition in toppling Saddam...
...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...