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No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself. The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern. I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Abu GhraibEvery once in a while Thomas Friedman gets it right. New York Times"This administration needs to undertake a total overhaul of its Iraq policy; otherwise, it is courting a total disaster for us all."
"That overhaul needs to begin with President Bush firing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — today, not tomorrow or next month, today. What happened in Abu Ghraib prison was, at best, a fundamental breakdown in the chain of command under Mr. Rumsfeld's authority, or, at worst, part of a deliberate policy somewhere in the military-intelligence command of sexually humiliating prisoners to soften them up for interrogation, a policy that ran amok." The only problem is that he got this one right too late. Bush is six months from the election, and his only possible issue to run on is the war in Iraq. Firing Rumsfeld will be an admission that even Iraq is going bad for him. If Bush fires Rumsfeld now, Bush loses in November. It is that simple. |
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