Fairbanks assemblymen call for Rumsfeld resignation

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http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_4381908

Fairbanks assemblymen call for Rumsfeld resignation
Associated Press

Six family members of Alaska-based soldiers earlier this week called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claiming he misled them during a trip to the state last month. Now some Fairbanks North Star Borough assemblymen are getting into the act.

Assemblyman Hank Bartos and Guy Sattley have drafted a resolution calling for Rumsfeld's resignation. They hope to have it approved next week by the entire nine-member assembly. The resolution follows an extension of the year-long tour of duty in Iraq for troops from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright.

Bartos says that when soldiers from the brigade died in combat in recent weeks, he'd had enough. He says the situation in Iraq has been terribly mismanaged since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The resolution blames Rumsfeld for failing to develop an adequate postwar plan in Iraq, failing to ensure U.S. troops had adequate protective gear and failing to provide troops with the training needed to manage prisoners of war. Bartos and Sattley are a contrast in backgrounds. Bartos was a lieutenant colonel and pilot during the Vietnam War. Sattley was a Peace Corps volunteer for three years during the Vietnam era.

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1. I think rummy will resign after the election.

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2. While he is at it, ask for Dick Cheney's and George Dumbya's

...resignations also.