Bush should fire Rumsfeld now

5/16/2004

The torture of Iraqi prisoners is so unbelievably reprehensible that it requires the immediate firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The torturing of prisoners under U.S. watch is not the type of military mishap that will be made OK by the court martial of a few underlings. The buck stops at the top of the Defense Department.

I hope President Bush has the guts to do what's right and fire his secretary of defense as soon as possible.

J. Schultz

Waterville