ruh-roh Rumsfeld (caution: ripsnort style post)

[beet1e]

[Gnslngr]

WAAAAAHHHH.....Dems in congress can cry all they want to...fact is what happend is wrong.  The Army did a by the book investigation before the photos were ever made public.

Truth be told I see more crying out of dems. in congress over some iraqi prisoners that are still living today than I did over Americans that were burned alive and dragged through the street

[Saintaw]

lol

[Charon]

From a military leadership standpoint, I think "abuse gate" is the least of Rummy's problems. The "War light" plan -- all of the fighting half of the troops -- seems to have been adequate for the war (though with gaps securing the logistics routes) but came up short as soon as the looting started. It continues to be a problem during the resistance (of course, the resistance seems to have been unexpected for some reason at the cabinet level, even though it was hardly unexpected elsewhere). Another case of a SecDef telling the generals how to fight a war and run an occupation.

Charon

[Mickey1992]

While Rummy's job may be safe, someone's head will surely roll.  What DOES the Pentagon do properly nowadays?

From the AP:

In a sign of continued problems with the tracking of contracts, Pentagon officials on Thursday acknowledged they have yet to identify which Army entity manages the multimillion-dollar contract for interrogators like the one accused in the Iraq prisoner abuse probe.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also acknowledged his department hasn't completed rules to govern the 20,000 or so private security guards watching over U.S. officials, installations and private workers in Iraq.

No single Pentagon office tracks how many people — Americans, Iraqis or others — are on the department's payroll in Iraq.