• Bush refuses to face facts in Iraq Bush refuses to face facts in Iraq President George W. Bush’s Pentagon pep talk Monday had an air of unreality. Bush began with over-the-top praise for the “superb job” that Defense Secretary
• Bush refuses to face facts in Iraq
Bush refuses to face facts in Iraq
President George W. Bush’s Pentagon pep talk Monday had an air of unreality. Bush began with over-the-top praise for the “superb job” that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had done in “courageously leading our nation in the war against terrorism.” Bush concluded by reiterating that a free Iraq “will lead the way to a new and better Middle East.” “Superb” is a poor word to describe the way Rumsfeld has fumbled the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the occupation of Iraq. Bush and Rumsfeld still refuse to face up to evidence that responsibility for the prison abuse extends beyond the military police to the intelligence officers.
If Bush is to have a chance of redeeming this misbegotten incursion in Iraq — and protecting American troops there now — he needs to jettison the man responsible for so much of what has gone wrong.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
