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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas May 06, 2004 10:32am |
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| News Date | Thursday, May 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rumsfeld Criticized Over New Iraq Photos
The Honolulu Advertiser
Additional photos of U.S. abuse of Iraqi prisoners emerged as pressure mounted Thursday on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Two Bush aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president stood firmly behind Rumsfeld despite what one characterized as the "mild rebuke." As pressure on Rumsfeld mounted, the defense secretary canceled a scheduled appearance at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and instead sent Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to speak. Six months before he stands for re-election, the prisoner-abuse controversy poses a major problem for Bush, already on the defensive about rising U.S. casualties and persistent violence in Iraq a year after he declared major combat operations completed.
Criticism of the administration's handling of the prisoner abuse scandal escalated. Citing what it called "the botched handling" of the abuse investigation and his overall decisions about the Iraq war, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said in a Thursday editorial that "Rumsfeld should resign and take his top deputies with him." Asked on CBS' "The Early Show" whether Bush should fire Rumsfeld, Sen. John McCain declined Thursday to "presume to tell the president what he should do." But the Arizona Republican added, "It's obvious that there's a lot of explaining that Secretary Rumsfeld and others have to do, including why Congress was never informed as to this."
More photographs of prisoner abuses were revealed by The Washington Post, which said it had obtained a new batch of more than 1,000 digital photos from Iraq. The newspaper said the photos depicted graphic images of various kinds of abuse. A front page photo showed a female soldier holding a leash that goes around a naked man's neck. |
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