Oregonian: Rumsfeld Should Leave

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(even the blind Oregonian can find a kernel of corn now and again)

http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1084017689220270.xml

Rumsfeld should leave office
Ultimately, the conditions that led to abuse of Iraqi prisoners were rooted in failures of leadership

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says that he takes full responsibility for the breakdown of military regulations and discipline that led to abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere. Friday, he told a Senate committee that, if it would help matters, he would resign.

It would and he should.

President Bush has already said he intends to keep Rumsfeld in the Cabinet, and the secretary offered contrition at Friday's Senate-committee hearing on the prisoner incidents. So, if you don't count the Democrats in Washington, D.C. -- and who does? -- there is little official pressure for Rumsfeld to leave his job.

Indeed, as virtually everyone in official Washington reacted with revulsion to the publication of those pictures from Abu Ghraib, the proceedings have taken on a weird air of self-congratulation.

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1. Wow.

They still get slammed b/c they endorsed Bush in 2000.