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Apparently they just keep coming. Also, the reports that we who actually read and search for information trying to get to the truth (or at least the facts) have known about for a very long time...

Noting that Red Cross representatives had been visiting the prison and talking privately with detainees, spokeswoman Nada Doumani said in Geneva, “We were aware of what was going on, and based on our findings we have repeatedly requested the U.S. authorities to take corrective action.”

Citing what it called “the botched handling” of the abuse investigation and a his overall decisions about the Iraq war, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said in a Thursday editorial that “Rumsfeld should resign and take his top deputies with him.”

  Globe & Mail article

Sure, like that's going to happen. But it is absolutely what should happen, and then we can move on to cleaning house in the State Department, the NSA and the White House.

Asked on CBS's The Early Show whether Mr. Bush should fire Mr. Rumsfeld, Senator John McCain declined Thursday to “presume to tell the president what he should do.” The Arizona Republican added, however, that “it's obvious that there's a lot of explaining that Secretary Rumsfeld and others have to do, including why Congress was never informed as to this.”

White House aides said Mr. Bush had chastised Mr. Rumsfeld for failing to tell him about pictures of prisoner mistreatment.

Get that last sentence. That's exactly what I was talking about in my earlier post, when I said: "I can imagine the one question Doubleface might have asked: 'Is there any proof in the hands of the media?'"

And Mr. McCain, and all the other whining Congressfolk, have absolutely no excuse. None. We who have been on the internet have known all these things without Secretary Rumsfiend or anyone else in the administration informing us.

Worthless. They should all be relieved of their positions.

Mr. Rumsfeld was summoned by angry legislators to testify on Capitol Hill on Friday, while senators — Republicans and Democrats alike — discussed a resolution to condemn the abuses.

That'll take care of the problem.

Worthless.

The CIA's inspector-general also was looking into three deaths that may have involved agency officers or contractors, intelligence officials said. It was unclear how many of these CIA investigations involved the same prison deaths as the military's investigators, although army officials said at least one did.

Oh, hell. Let's stop being little idiots. That's part of the CIA's fucking job. Oh, but they don't do that any more, because it's been outlawed. Right.


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Mr. Bush went on Arabic TV on Wednesday and said Americans were appalled by the abuse and deaths of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers. He promised that “justice will be delivered.”

Yes, so far what I've read is that some officers might be relieved of their commands and some soldiers might get reprimands that prevent them from advancing in rank. And a very few might actually be found guilty in criminal trials or court martials, with no indication of what "justice" that might earn them.

American justice for (selected) Americans. It's different than American justice for Iraqis. And, Mr. Bushidiot may be overlooking the fact that it's also different from Arab ideas of justice.

“The people in the Middle East must understand that this was horrible,” Mr. Bush said.

Oh, Doubledumb, I don't think you have to help them to understand that. You seem a lot more likely candidate for not understanding.