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To: LindyBill who wrote (42590)5/6/2004 10:27:20 PM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) of 793715
 
Rummy stays and Bush apologizes.

Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet'

I accept that. Keeping the boss informed is important, yet Rummy has done enough and enough good to be allowed an error or two.

The Iraqis being interviewed on tv are ok with us punishing the perpetrators.
I am having difficulty accepting America's response to this incident. I have seen and read of far worse hazing incidents at American Universities and high school hockey teams. IMO we are kissing too much butt.

What really concerns me is the extent to which the Administration and their spokesmen have allowed themselves to be put on the defensive. Also, no one seems to be asking why those specific detainees were being detained.
Remember when, in Afghanistan, several hundred prisoners were allowed to keep their clothes on? Later they pulled out weapons from under their clothes and proceeded to launch a firefight that took American lives. Has everyone already forgotten Mike Spann? It seems if our people would have made them disrobe it would have done immeasurable harm to those poor Islamic militant extremist Taliban types. We certainly wouldn't want to do that. We might not be loved as much as we are now in the Islamic world.

I can tell you with certainty that stripping POWs and taking POW's pictures is, has and will continue to be done by all armies. This time it was not done according to protocol...that hardly seems sufficient to warrant an American national crisis.
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