U.S.: Sec of State Rumsfeld before the Senate

Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot big time over this particular grilling. So far, with the exception of Senators Lieberman and Sessions, the Senate is acquitting itself miserably. The Democrats have bared their anti-Bush and anti-military agenda; worse yet, they have conveniently forgotten the context of the prisoner mistreatment. This is a nation at war, and the people who have been mistreated are in Abu Ghraib for trying to kill Iraqis and Americans in Iraq, while they were outside the prison and even after they were incarcerated.

Rumsfeld is demonstrating remarkable restraint with Senate idiocy -- who elects these people?!?! However, he's had to remind them that the military is operating with peacetime constrainst in a war-time situation.

As for all the apologies, to hell with it. I agree wholeheartedly with Joe Lieberman. When Arabs start apologizing for the deeds they have committed against Americans -- civilians and soldiers -- then perhaps, the U.S. should think about maybe tendering an apology for the mistreatment of Iraqi and foreign terrorist thugs at Abu Ghraib.

I am left to question why the pictures were published in the first place. What purpose did their publication serve inasmuch as the U.S. military had already begun investigations and had begun to punish those involved in the situation? We're a country involved in a war in a region noted for its savagery.After so much liberal blather about what President Bush is doing to protect American troops in harm's way in Iraq, the media publishes photos that make it likely that the troops will be tortured and executed -- if they're captured. Ironically, when have Arabs not tortured or harmed captured American troops, anyway? The hypocrisy of the "outcry" coming from the Arabs is astonishing.

Anyway, Rumsfeld has said he won't resign because some are attempting to make a political issue of the matter. Charlie Rangel, that fine upstanding supporter of communist dictator Fidel Castro, has drawn up articles of impeachment against Secretary Rumsfeld. The delicious irony of it all.