McGrath: It means I regret that he probably will have to go. I think it depends, though, on how much pressure the media puts on him either to resign, or on Bush to fire him. While it's true the "buck" stops here (with Rumsfield)no fair minded person, I believe, thinks he condones such behaviour from our troops, and had he known about it sooner, I'm certain he would have nipped it in the bud. I do not believe either he, or the military command, can be faulted for not taking action as soon as they knew about the abuses.

Sometimes, for the over-all good, a key executive should stick around rather than make a symbolic resignation in order to appease the critics. It has become a political thing now, and likely will be more so in the future.

I just saw a Washington Post poll that showed that 69% of those polled thought he should NOT lose his job. With more, and likely, stronger stuff coming out in the next few days, though, that opinion poll result could change very quickly.

DougR