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I don't know the response to the allegations. I haven't read anything so far that suggests reprimands were taking place before the media broke the story.

Rumsfield testified he wasn't even sure of what the allegations or actions were. He admitted he hadn't even read a report of them from two months ago. The Red Cross is stating they knew about such abuses and alerted the military commanders and the pentagon over a year ago.

All of these things indicate to me that he didn't "put the boot down."

And even now, where are the soldiers? I only know of the woman. She is confined to her barracks. That's certainly not putting any boot down either. Minimizing the atrocities isn't putting the boot down, to my mind either.

Perhaps instead of bickering with me you could produce some evidence that he actually did something to show the world how seriously he took this.

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