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February 04, 2005
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Resignation Offers
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has been under persistent attack in recent weeks from some of the neo-conservatives that advocated and got an invasion of Iraq, disclosed February 3, 2005 that he had offered President George W. Bush his resignation twice during the embarassing Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in 2004, according to The Associated Press and other publications. "He said he wanted the decision on his future to be placed in Bush's hands," Robert Burn's, the AP's military writer, noted in a February 3, 2005 dispatch.
Question: Why does Mr. Rumsfeld need Mr. Bush to tell him to resign? I think he was looking for assurance from his boss that he could stay on despite creating a situation that caused Mr.Bush considerable embarassment. Mr. Bush has said, among the many reasons he has given for invading and occupying Iraq, that the U.S. had liberated Iraqis from torture and human rights abuses.
Posted by Munir Umrani at February 4, 2005 04:11 PM
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