WP: Bush Privately Chides Rumsfeld

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Some Say Pentagon Resisted Calls for Changes on Detainees

Thursday, May 6, 2004; Page A01

President Bush privately admonished Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday, as other senior administration officials blamed the Pentagon for failing to act on repeated recommendations to improve conditions for thousands of Iraqi detainees and release those not charged with crimes, U.S. officials said.

Bush is "not satisfied" and "not happy" with the way Rumsfeld informed him about the investigation into abuses by U.S. soldiers at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison or the quantity of information Rumsfeld provided, a senior White House official said.

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"The level of disarticulation between the military and civilian components of our occupation is extraordinary," said Larry Diamond, fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute who served for several months as an adviser to L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, and is now a critic of the U.S. occupation. "We're either serious about human rights and the Geneva Convention or we're not."

Although Bush is giving no consideration to asking to Rumsfeld to resign, the senior White House official said, the president informed Rumsfeld of his dissatisfaction during a meeting in the Oval Office yesterday morning after the two left a National Security Council meeting. Bush was particularly bothered at not having been told that the photos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison were in circulation, even though Pentagon officials knew that CBS had obtained them, the senior White House official said.

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[Mr_Lefty]

1. and he sent him to bed without any dinner

[smiley_glad_hands]

2. Horse shit.

[54anickel]

5. Yep, I figure they were exchanging high fives.

[MarianJack]

6. I Agree!

I think that if moron ever dared to criticize anyone in this administration he'd find out (again) just who was and wasn't in charge!

[AZCat]

3. How can it be a 'private' admonishment...

If it's covered in the Washington Post?

I smell a Senior White House Official RAT... Must be Karl's work?

[alcuno]

4. So the problem is that there are photos in circulation?

That's his biggest problem with Rumsfeld?

[shraby]

7. I noticed that it didn't

say he was upset because of the pictures, but that he was upset because they were in circulation. Demand the whole admininstration's resignation!!!! It stinks.

[Demonaut]

8. listen,we won this war, to the victor goes the spoils, pity the vanquished

got ya!

[LittleApple81]

9. Of course. What did you expect? n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

10. Will the Washington Post ever be a real newspaper again?

Face it, the WHORESHINGTON POST is an endless GOP propaganda organ that has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY left. Everyone who "writes" (and I use that loosely) for this worthless piece of shit has sold out to the GOP.

[SodoffBush]

11. get outta here!

Rummy backhanded that little dweeb and told him to shut the f*ck up.

[librechik]

12. Bush out of the loop?

his secrecy comes back and bites him in the ass. Get ready, Shrub. You're about to get clipped.

What would he have done if he had been warned in advance?

Hmmm.