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...actions shown in the photographs were deliberate, and the soldiers' excuse that they were simply following orders is absurd. Every U.S. service member has the right to decline an order that is morally wrong. All the proper training in the world cannot replace a lack of morals. This scandal undermines everything that I and many others did to help the Iraqi people. Ross Edwards Palatine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...leadership creates culture and culture sanctions behavior, then look to the mind and behavior of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before you search elsewhere for answers to your cover's question, HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? Rumsfeld's acceptance of "full responsibility" for the Abu Ghraib scandal means nothing while he remains in office. Can't Bush see that? Errol Gray Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut that saw 241 U.S. soldiers killed, and prompted a hasty withdrawal that was later cited by al-Qaeda as evidence of American weakness. And the Iran-Contra scandal exposed a seamy side to the administration's proxy wars. Still, on balance his decade is remembered as one in which America recovered from the setbacks of the 1970s to resume its role as the visionary strategic leader of the Western world in facing down all challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 | 6/5/2004 | See Source »

...soldiers is acute, even as opinion about the present war still divides and doubts begin to conquer even former supporters. Respect for the troops is the one thing Americans have in common when nothing else can be shared. Far from bringing shame on all soldiers, the Abu Ghraib scandal elicits fury on behalf of the thousands of soldiers whose lives just became harder. People are aware of the holidays missed and the family occasions postponed as tours are extended, and the only thing certain is that nothing about this war is certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: 60Th Anniversary: The Greatest Day | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...thought speech that lasted 35 minutes," groused a G.O.P. Representative, adding that the applause afterward was only "polite." Others were miffed that Bush took no questions--even though microphones had been set out in the audience for the lawmakers--and said nothing at all about the prison-abuse scandal. Instead, he pleaded for patience on the war with "the same boilerplate speech we've heard before," said a G.O.P. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When A Pep Talk Isn't All That Peppy | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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