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Originally posted by Not Me
This is a non-scandal. The people that hate GWB and Rummy will try to make it one, but it won't change anyone's minds.
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When The Economist -- one of the earliest, loudest, and most consistent supporters of going to war in Iraq -- calls for Rumsfeld to resign or be fired -- I have to say that you are simply wrong.
This is not to mention, of course, that pictures of Arabs being tortured and humiliated by Americans kinda just might cause us to lose some of the Arab hearts and minds we were supposed to be winning.
If you're talking about the American electorate, you may have a point -- the country is so polarized that even if Rummy were carving Satanic pentagrams on Iraqi prisoners with a dull steak knife people like you would defend him and call anyone who didn't a traitor (this is the flip-side of your argument "you hate him anyway, so there").
On the other hand, public opinion polls regarding the Admin's handling of Iraq have been dropping steadily since March. Are you confident that the revelations about treatment of prisoners have absolutely nothing to do with that?
