Bush Comes to Defense of His Defense Secretary

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20041220/pl_nm/bush_rumsfeld_dc

Bush Comes to Defense of His Defense Secretary

1 hour, 1 minute ago Politics - Reuters


By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday brushed aside criticism of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over his handling of the Iraq (news - web sites) war and described him as a "caring fellow" who will win over doubters on Capitol Hill.

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. He's such a "caring fellow" that

he wasn't even signing the letters going out to the families of the fallen soldiers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Signing all those letters to the families

of dead soldiers oughtta help.

These guys are so out of touch with reality it's scary.

I just heard AL Franken on AAR. He is in Iraq with a USO tour. He said everywhere he goes over there the soldiers are complaining about Rumsfeld. * has a bigger problem on his hands than he is willing to admit. What a moran.

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. Yep, I'm listening too

Funny though, something I heard yesterday said that the deployed soldiers like Rummy....yeah right!

[indepat]

3. Does this say Rummy has merely executed his boss's wishes with

relish and to a tee?

[Squatch]

4. Who...Donald "Rubber Stamp" Rumsfeld?

[Hobarticus]

5. In Bizarro World, 'caring fellow' means 'soulless ghoul'...eom

[Disturbed]

7. A Caring War Criminal

Rumsfailed Admitted to Violating Geneva Convention

Rumsfailed admitted in public on TV that when CIA Director Tenet requested that an Iraqi prisoner be sent to a secret Afghan/US Prison that Rumsfailed did so. After four months a DOD Attorney stated that this was an illegal act. Rumsfailed then ordered that this prisoner be sent back to Abu Graihib but the prisoner was purposefully not listed at that location, also an illegal act. Rumsfeld also admitted to signing orders for tougher interogation methods which violated the Geneva Conventions.

Rumfailed has commited at least three violations of the Geneva Convention thereby also violations of The Constitution of the USA. Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfailed and Tenet have not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Rep. Rangle's Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfailed and also proscecute Ex. CIA Tenet.

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Q: Senator Jack Reed (Dem, RI): "If you were shown
a video of a United States Marine or an American
citizen in control of a foreign power, in a cell block,
naked with a bag over their head, squatting with their
arms uplifted for 45 minutes, would you describe that
as a good interrogation technique or a violation of
the Geneva Convention?"

A: Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I would describe it as a violation."

A: Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense: "What
you've described to me sounds to me like a violation of the
Geneva Convention."

Thursday, May 13, 2004, Senate Armed Services Committee hearings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-20...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-2004May13.htm

Friday 17 December 2004

“Scott Horton, a New York lawyer and president of the International League for Human Rights, has spent months investigating the role Bush administration officials played in the torture scandal. He says there is mounting evidence - including the May 10 FBI e-mail - that strongly suggests that Rumsfeld and his top intelligence aides were directly responsible for the wholesale abandonment of legal and ethical norms as well as international treaty obligations. Now that Republican senators and neoconservative ideologues are publicly turning their backs on the defense secretary, perhaps even he may someday be held accountable for this disgraceful stain on the honor of the U.S. armed forces.”

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121804X.shtml




Does the US, Govt., Congress, and the Justice Dept no longer abide by the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the USA?

[flordehinojos]

8. I think Bush did that too shortly before they drove the dagger through

Trent Lott's Senate Majority position.