LIVE THREAD: Rumsfeld Testifies Regarding Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners

http://freerepublic.com ^ | May 7, 2004

[Howlin]

Link to C-SPAN

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp

I'm sure all the networks will be showing this.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

***I then made a gesture that wasn't becoming of me as a gentleman

I call your gesture a righteous anger exhibition. :o) They were hardly acting like ladies.

[maryz]

Nelson: When did you see the photos.

Rumsfeld first saw undoctored photos last night (not those in the press).

It was brought up with president in a meeting; Myers doesn't recall exactly when the meeting was was, probably late January, early February.

Nelson: What did pres say you should do?

Rumsfeld: Believes it was more of an information meeting -- only one-dimensional at that time, no video, no color. If there is a failure it is Rumsfeld's for no knowing there were 100s of these things. He certainly didn't give the Pres a briefing about photos he hadn't seen.

Nelson: What are your instructions from Pres to inform him of matters such as this?

Rumsfeld: Clearly Sec'y of Def must figure what does the Pres need to know. He meets with Myers weekly and go over things to choose what the Pres needs most. May be contingency plan, personnel problem, anything.

[Howlin]

Thank you for standing in for us and showing them the respect that people on this thread think they deserve! :-)

[Peach]

WHAT! My husband just came home and I was talking to him.

The Democrats are preparing articles of impeachment against Rumsfeld?????

[highlandbreeze]

Lord in heaven, how I loathe these people.

[capydick]

Joe needs to change parties

I think he's doing it right now

But it would be a wash due to McCainiac's disposition to tilt left when he's feeling lonely.

[commish]

Rummy didn't see the pictures till last night

He didn;t see all of the photo's until last night. He saw the same ones we saw in the media before that.

[mtbopfuyn]

Dole - please let her be above all this

[OXENinFLA]

See post 1744

[BunnySlippers]

Missed McCain. Just reading what other Freepers have been saying. McCain was McNasty to Rummy ... Lieberman was nice.

[kcvl]

What happened to Elizabeth Dole? She has gained some serious weight.

[Howlin]

I hope they know WHO did it?

As an aside, do you think Liddy Dole uses the same Botox guy that John Kerry does?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

The Democrats are preparing articles of impeachment against Rumsfeld?????

Yes they did this yeaterday.

[proud American in Canada]

Graham did a good job.

I wonder if Rumsfeld's comment, "if anyone did anything wrong, it was me!" will be held against him.

Never mind.... :) it will.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Follow up:Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
Most Dismayed, But Few Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Polls/iraq_prisoner_poll_040507.html
May 7, 2004— Most Americans express dismay about the abuse of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers, and the nation divides on whether the Bush administration sought at first to investigate the scandal — or to cover it up.

Yet more than six in 10 also see these incidents as isolated, and say they should not cost Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld his job.

[McGruff]

Video??

Yes, the other day Jim Miklaszewski, NBC'c Pentagon correspondent stated that there are videos yet to come out.

Lindsay Graham did us all a service by making sure this is brought out now before they show up on TV.

[cajungirl]

well, I do not think he is a mole. He is a supporter of the War. He has always been outspoken. He is able to be so today because he is a dem and is not liable to be attacked and run out of town by saying what he said. But I am not meaning to use any disparagement or broad brush on him and if you saw it that way, well, that was not my intention. And BTW I sort of like Jews who look out for Israel. I don't see them as "moles" and think that whole line of thinking is bigoted.

[cake_crumb]

"I then made a gesture that wasn't becoming of me as a gentleman, but I needed to vent."

LOL...good for you! P.S.: they were't "ladies" so oyu don't need to worry about being a gentleman.

[breakem]

I prefer you make a 4 minute political speech follwed by a convoluted 1 minute attempt to turn it into a question. For examples just rewind the video.

[ellery]

I think the media and the dims have 'waaaay overreached here. This smacks of a witchhunt, and I think/hope/pray the American people know it.