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...mandate for the humane treatment of prisoners should never be qualified, especially by vague phrases like “to the extent appropriate with military necessity.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, like Bush, used such characteristically vague language in a memorandum released in April 2003, in which he approved 24 techniques of interrogation. The memorandum states that prisoners may be interrogated in settings “that may be less comfortable” but do not “constitute a substantial change in environmental quality.” Such language is too vague to prevent inhumane methods...
Even as Kerry repeated his lines that Bush had misjudged, if not misrepresented, the threat that Saddam posed, a more damaging case was being made by members of the Administration itself. First, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared that he had seen no compelling evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Then the Washington Post reported that former Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions...
...looming return of conscription has become so rampant that House Republicans last week tried to dispel the rumors by forcing a vote on a no-hope bill to reinstate the draft. (It lost, 402 to 2.) "We've got 295 million people in this country," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said before the vote. "We don't need a draft...
...Bush Administration has resisted calls for expanding the Army and instead has focused on its goal of "transforming" the military into a more mobile, lethal force. Rumsfeld and his handpicked-from-retirement Army chief of staff, General Peter Schoomaker, have made clear they want no permanent increase in troops for the U.S. Army (although they have okayed a temporary 30,000 hike). They're pushing a four-pronged offensive designed to give the Army 30% more combat punch without permanently adding soldiers. They are breaking the Army into smaller, more potent units, pulling calcified forces out of cold-war strongholds...
...even if the Administration succeeds in remaking the military, the failure to bolster troop levels carries grave short-term risks. In August, a classified study requested by Rumsfeld concluded that there are "inadequate total numbers" of U.S. troops to maintain the current pace of operations around the world. Some military experts fear that if a crisis erupted with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. would be unable to credibly threaten the use of force because of its obligations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We can't respond to another major crisis right now," says retired Army General Barry McCaffrey. "We have...