Iraqis Cheer Rumsfeld Departure

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Iraqis on Thursday cheered the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, blaming him for policy failures and scandals they say helped spawn the daily sectarian carnage wracking their nation.

``Rumsfeld's resignation shows the scale of the mess the U.S. has made in Iraq,'' said Ibrahim Ali, 44, who works at the Oil Ministry. ``The efforts by American politicians to hide their failure are no longer working.''

Iraq's government has yet to comment on Rumsfeld's resignation, announced Wednesday after the Democratic Party won a sweeping victory in midterm elections in which voter discontent over the war in Iraq played a major role.

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``Rumsfeld's resignation is not enough,'' Ahmed said. ``He should be put under investigation for his responsibility in the crimes committed in Abu Ghraib and the killings and rapes carried out by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi citizens, he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6203135,00.html

[BR_Parkway]

1. OMG - Bush just gave a win to the terraists? Everything is going

to come back around and bite him in the ass, isn't it? Karma, on steroids.

[Demeter]

2. I Agree With Ahmed--Let the Investigations Begin (or Resume)

Let's uncancel the Fraud Squad in Iraq, for starters.

[Ragin1]

3. Cheered!?

It just shows me these people havn't researched Gates a bit. Spookdady to the max. Maybee helped invent the torture measures used by our fearless troops today.