Rumsfeld must go: he's only sorry he got caught!

This was OBVIOUS from his Senate testimony yesterday.

His profuse "apologies" seemed scripted, and every now an then he couldn't help but go into lambasting those "illegal" diversions of documents that actually told the truth, and the reporters who reported it!

Hey Rummy, if you had your way, obviously we'd never know about this torture. And Void knows what else we don't know!

Rumsfeld said he would lead if he was no longer "effective." Well, Rummy, you're not: everyone in the rest of the world saw that testimony, and I'm sure alot of them got the same feeling I got.

Folks, I'm going to do some letters to the editor on that count.

Let's see if we can get Rummy out on his dupa...

I love your post.

Have a look at this:


http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2002/04/13/story46355.asp

...as part of a written court filing, Lindh’s lawyers last month released a picture of him in Afghanistan, blindfolded, strapped to a stretcher and naked. Defence officials have said that while that photo may have appeared shocking, it was taken out of context because he was naked as part of his preparation for medical treatment.

In the newly-revealed incident, Lindh has an obscene, derogatory word written across his blindfold, a senior defence official said.

The Pentagon has repeatedly limited the media in the kind of photos it can take of prisoners from the war in Afghanistan on the argument that photos subjecting the prisoners to humiliation violate Geneva Convention provisions on treatment of prisoners.

The photos troops took of themselves with their prisoner were found when the Pentagon did a computer search for documents and other materials ordered by the court hearing charges against Lindh, another official said.

Existence of the photos were first reported on CBS Evening News, a television programme.

Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said he did not know if the photos were being held at the Pentagon and that he hadn’t seen them.

‘‘You know, there’s hundreds of detainees, and about every day somebody says something,’’ he said in response to reporter’s questions.

‘‘I guess if you ask me when I got up in the morning - and we’ve got people being killed in the Mideast and we’ve got a war going on in Afghanistan - if I am going to change my schedule and go chasing after rumours on things like that, it’s unlikely,’’ he said in impromptu comments in a Pentagon hallway.