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The report, issued at a Pentagon news conference, was the first official finding in several reviews conducted so far that assigned any responsibility for the Abu Ghraib offenses to anyone who was not stationed at the prison itself.
"The abuses were not just the failure of some individuals to follow known standards, and they are more than the failure of a few leaders to enforce proper discipline," the panel said in its report. "There is both institutional and personal responsibility at higher levels." |
Responsible? Yes. Accountable? Never. They're to blame, but on no, let's not actually do anything about it. Why?
Worse still...
| Asked today if Mr. Rumsfeld or other high-ranking officials should resign, Mr. Schlesinger, himself a former defense secretary, said that "his resignation would be a boon for all of America's enemies." |
Could someone please explain the logic of this to me? The evil at Abu Gharib was committed in the midst of our war on terror, a war that (in theory at least) is as much a military conflict as it is a conflict of ideas. How exactly would a resignation that shows the world that this nation stands for truth, justice, and the rule of law be a "boon for all of America's enemies"? I just don't understand....
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