Bush Views More Photos

WASHINGTON — President Bush, making an unusual visit to the Pentagon on Monday, viewed still-secret photographs of U.S. soldiers mistreating Iraqi prisoners and said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was doing "a superb job" for which the nation owes him "a debt of gratitude."

Why?
*Because of him our troop strength is below what is needed according to virtually every expert (in the field or not).
*Our Death toll is greater after we 'won' than before.
*Our troops were found to be committing War Crimes including: Rape, Child Molestation, Physical Torture, and Mental Torture.
*When asked when he knew and when he told the president, he responded that he had no idea (see the Senate hearings last week).
*The bulk of these prisoners were people caught with dragnet sweeps and over 2/3 have been charged with no crime.
*The International Red Cross reported these findings privately to the leadership last year and nothing was done.
*He (with the President) has been incapable of sustaining any substantive international support.
*He handed the Fallujah situation off to one of Saddam's Republican Guard generals.

Just why do we owe him this gratitude? He has been wrong on virtually every tactical aspect of Iraq aside fromt he 2 weeks it took to take the nation. we will be in Iraq for years. we need someone that's right for more than 2 weeks. SORRY RUMMY...you don't get my gratitude.


SIDEBAR:
In the context of these events, our nation looks even worse in the eyes of the world because of what we did before going to war. the same US leaders that are responsible for our nation also spent the last few years making very specific decisions opt out of the various international conventions, organizations, and rules regarding the treatment of prisoners which were designed to keep such things from happening. even the agreements we helped to design (the geneva convention) has been disregarded.