Rumsfeld Did It and Iraqis Want Him Out

Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:02 PM


Major Iraqi newspaper demands Rumsfeld quit

BAGHDAD - One of Iraq's most widely read newspapers called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit on Saturday over American abuse of Iraqi detainees.

Two days after Rumsfeld visited Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Azzaman printed a rare front-page editorial that recalled his role in negotiating with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and said he should have used the trip to resign and free Iraqi prisoners.

"Rumsfeld, who humiliated the Iraqi army and undermined the history and dignity of the Iraqi people, forgot the unforgettable offense his soldiers meted out to the sons of Iraq in Abu Ghraib," the paper said. "Rumsfeld, who is known for his history of collaboration with Saddam, should have announced his resignation from Baghdad to satisfy the oppressed Iraqi people," it added, describing his visit to Abu Ghraib as "choreographed show business."

Rumsfeld has resisted calls at home for him to resign over the conduct of U.S. troops, seven of whom have been charged with maltreating and sexually humiliating detainees in Abu Ghraib.

President Bush, fighting for re-election, has stood by Rumsfeld despite outrage in Iraq and abroad provoked by the publication of lurid photographs of the abuse.

Many Iraqis, backed up by reports from the Red Cross of systematic torture, believe beatings and even killings by U.S. soldiers are commonplace. That is undermining U.S. authority in the country as Washington prepares to hand back power to an Iraqi interim government on June 30.

U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's spokesman Scott McClellan, said on Friday that U.S. troops would not stay where they were not welcome but voiced confidence that an Iraqi government would ask them to stay on. Many Iraqis fear a hurried U.S. departure would create anarchy.



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give a shit about what the iraqis want.

You might want to read this as well. I suspect that's not the actual article's headline, for starters.

LBN rules
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x87249

Thanks, welcome to DU!

Here, the very country which Donald the Devil has been ravaging for over a year. His only sadness in the whole mess was that it was immortalized on digital "reality TV".

Click. Flash. "Smile, Don, you're on Candid Camera".

I suspect that's his only regret. The new article about Don's Dealings makes it clear that he knew about this quite a while ago. Apparently he even knew about the photos but was much too busy to bother with them. Why would the sordid deaths of some meaningless muslims bother him? Apparently, fate thinks otherwise.

And how fitting that the very country which he thought so little of, would now come and demand his ouster. Just wait until they read Monday morning's edition of the New Yorker. They're in for a little surprise.

As we unveil the reality of these PIGS that have been claiming to be Americans! They are filth! They deserve to be tried and convicted as the war criminals they have proven themselves to be. The American people will settle for nothing less! Nothing!!!

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I did not see it. Just delete my thread. Moderator can you?

Thought it was gonna be last week. After read the complete Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker, I don't see how he can survive the onslaught.

There's an existing Late Breaking News thread on this topic. Please continue the discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x558186

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