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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Rollcast... who wrote (42512)5/6/2004 2:40:48 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 793717
 
The mob is very quick to turn on our very best (like Rumsfeld)...

I don't know how much of this is about mob mentality and lack of loyalty. I think it's about commitment and resolve. This prisoner thing was a huge hit. There's not much we could have done that would have been more detrimental to our goals in Iraq. I don't know that this is fixable, but I'm pretty sure it isn't fixable with a few speeches and a few soldiers spending a few years in the brig.

We can only punish people for their specific crimes. If someone murders the President or the genius scientist who was on the verge of finding the cure for cancer, it's still the same murder charge as if the victim was a nobody or even a very bad guy. Murder is murder. There are penalties for mistreating prisoners. Those penalties are nowhere near enough to achieve justice for the damage those soldiers and whoever else was involved did. A death penalty wouldn't be enough. Never again will anyone in the world be able to say that Americans just don't do that sort of thing, that we're better than that. Never again will any of us be able to just brush off claims of brutality as bogus.

What can we do to fix this? I don't know. Maybe there's nothing that we can do. But if firing Rummy, a significant gesture, will do the trick, then Bush should do it. It's not about loyalty. It's about making sacrifices as needed to win a war.
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