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Originally posted by Stompy
I don't quite get why Rumsfeld is being held accountable.
Did he issue an order to humiliate the prisoners? I don't think he did.
If the soldiers who did it acted on their own free will, why should Rumsfeld issue an apology? I'd expect his apology to consist of, "I'm sorry those soldiers chose to treat the prisoners with such disrespect." and nothing more.
This trend regarding "blame" is getting very f'n annoying. Punish the soldiers responsible, realize that it was no one's fault but their own, and move on. Simple.
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It's not that Rumsfeld is being blamed for what happened, it's that he knew about these abuses months ago and apparently kept this knowledge from Bush. Bush's anger seems to stem from Rumsfeld's failure to inform him of these abuses. Basically, Bush is pissed - and rightly so - that he had to hear about this from the media instead of from his Secretary of Defense.