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Thread #69505   Message #1181759
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-May-04 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Should Rumsfeld Resign?
Subject: RE: BS: Should Rumsfeld Resign?
Here is a link to an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, the quality right-wing newspaper in England:

"...I found it rather confusing, however, when Mr Rumsfeld also indicated that he would "resign in a minute" if he felt he could not be an effective leader. On that basis, he should be gone already: he has already proved an ineffective leader, and will be much less effective in the wake of this miserable scandal. For what has leaked out of Abu Ghraib, along with the stomach-churning whiff of chaos and sadism, is the fundamental incompetence in the running of the US military from the top down...

"...There are stupid, small-town bullies with sadistic impulses in every army. The true test of an army is whether its command structure can keep the worst impulses of its soldiers in check. Mr Rumsfeld told America ruefully last week. 'It happened on my watch.' No it didn't. It happened while he wasn't bothering to watch, and that is the most disturbing thing of all.