"President Bush Expresses Confidence In Defense Secretary"

Rumsfeld to stay as defense chief
Official says Bush asked 72-year-old to remain

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6646697/



Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose future has been in doubt amid spreading violence and U.S. deaths in Iraq, was asked by President Bush on Friday to remain at the Pentagon in the administration’s second term, a senior official said.

Bush and Rumsfeld decided on the secretary’s future during an Oval Office meeting. Whether or not Rumsfeld would remain had been the last big question mark about Bush’s Cabinet for his second term.

Rumsfeld’s tenure has been marked by unanticipated postwar violence in Iraq and more than 1,250 U.S. deaths.

Describing Bush’s decision, the administration official said the president believed Rumsfeld was “the right person at this moment in our history in fighting the war on terror to lead our armed forces.”

and approve

was the right person, I wonder how bad the wrong person could have been?

Rumsfailed Admitted to Violating Geneva Convention

Rumsfailed admitted in public on TV that when CIA Director Tenet requested that an Iraqi prisoner be sent to a secret Afghan/US Prison that Rumsfailed did so. After four months a DOD Attorney stated that this was an illegal act. Rumsfailed then ordered that this prisoner be sent back to Abu Graihib but the prisoner was purposefully not listed at that location, also an illegal act. Rumsfeld also admitted to signing orders for tougher interogation methods which violated the Geneva Conventions.

Rumfailed has commited at least three violations of the Geneva Convention thereby also violations of The Constitution of the USA. Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfailed and Tenet have not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Rep. Rangle's Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfailed and also proscecute Ex. CIA Tenet.




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Q: Senator Jack Reed (Dem, RI): "If you were shown
a video of a United States Marine or an American
citizen in control of a foreign power, in a cell block,
naked with a bag over their head, squatting with their
arms uplifted for 45 minutes, would you describe that
as a good interrogation technique or a violation of
the Geneva Convention?"

A: Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I would describe it as a violation."

A: Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense: "What
you've described to me sounds to me like a violation of the
Geneva Convention."

Thursday, May 13, 2004, Senate Armed Services Committee hearings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-20...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-2004May13.htm



Does the US, Govt., Congress, and the Justice Dept no longer abide by the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the USA?

Don't forget that none of that matters now that the Senate is set to overwhelmingly approve an Attorney General who sees the pesky little Geneva Convention as "quaint."

Maybe Bush was just waiting to see if the Senate would accept Gonzales and his "quaint" memo. Now that they have gone on record as willing to do that, what's stopping him from stomping all over it every chance available?

This really would be funny if it weren't so very sad and scary.

of bush goons..there is no boundaries of how bad it can get..give rummy another shot..he can do it!

It seems one's stature with BushCo is in inverse relationship to one's actual competence.

If you told the truth, you're out. If you lied, you're in. And if you totally, royally screwed up to the point that you outraged the entire world and destroyed America's moral standing, you not only stay, you get PRAISE.

Bush will praise you and give you a raise!