Watching the two hearings with Rumsfield and his generals, I see that the questioners are too sympathetic they are trying too much to help Rumsfield. They don't want to make this worse than it is.

The BBC just had two different people from the Red Cross, who say this torture is in all Iraqi prisons, not as Rumsfield says, just a few bad apples in one place. And the Red Cross have been telling the State Dept. this since April 2003! And previously in Afganistan. If that isn't systemic what is?

Reuters: The Red Cross also said coalition forces had fired on unarmed prisoners from watchtowers and killed some of them.

The explosive nature of these pictures and soon video was in the system for months, the abuse for over a year and Rumsfield didn't know about it?

Rumsfield says he heard of abuse in Jan 2004. 5 months later the press let the cat out. Did he not hear the Red Cross? Did he ignore it? Rumsfield didn't see these photos till last night. Could he really have missed the explosive nature?

He will have to go to show the world that this was wrong. At last the black guy asked him, pleads with him to resign for the same reason as I--top heads need to role. Honour.

And the British will have to do something too. But we are small potatoes in this game.

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