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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (573560)	5/10/2004 11:02:36 AM
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A terrified John Kerry desperately tries to change the subject away from the overt treason of his fatally-flawed Democrat party... foxnews.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (573560)	5/10/2004 11:52:47 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Rumsfeld Criticized by Influential Military Paper By REUTERS May 10, 2004 Filed at 11:11 a.m. ET nytimes.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The independent Army Times newspaper, read widely in the U.S. military, on Monday suggested Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon civilian and military leaders should be removed over the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal. ``This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top. Accountability here is essential -- even if that means relieving top leaders from duty in a time of war,'' the private weekly newspaper said in an editorial. Army Times is one of four such publications owned by the Gannett Co., and has a circulation of about 250,000. The same editorial was carried in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Times newspapers. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, already facing demands from some Democrats and major newspapers that he quit over his handling of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Americans, said on Friday he would not step down ``simply because people try to make a political issue out of it.'' President Bush has expressed support for Rumsfeld and said he would remain part of the Cabinet. Rumsfeld and the chairman of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, have conceded they were too slow to inform Bush of the abuse -- which has stirred major criticism in Washington, Iraq and the Arab world -- but argue the military is investigating the matter and prosecuting those responsible. ``Myers, Rumsfeld and their staffs failed to recognize the impact the scandal would have, not only in the United States but around the world,'' the Army Times said. ``He (Bush) was left to learn of the explosive scandal from media reports instead of from his military leaders.'' The editorial noted that Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who commanded the Army Military Police brigade that ran the Abu Ghraib Prison near Baghdad, faces possible military action and that seven soldiers have been charged in the matter. ``That's good, but not good enough,'' the newspaper said. ``The entire affair is a failure of leadership from start to finish. From the moment they are captured, prisoners are hooded, shackled and isolated. The message to the troops: Anything goes.'' In congressional testimony on Friday, Rumsfeld took full responsibility for the abuse. Many U.S. newspapers have demanded Rumsfeld's resignation, including The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Newsday, Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Detroit Free Press. The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and New York Daily News published editorials supporting him. Copyright 2004 Reuters Ltd. \| Home