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On a day that saw sharply divided opinions over the war in Iraq, and its aftermath three years later, one of the Bush administration officials who faced the strongest criticisms was US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Retired US Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was responsible for training Iraqi troops until 2004, said Mr. Rumsfeld should resign. And top officials from two past administrations disputed his analogy that if the US pulled out of Iraq, it would be like the US handing Germany back to the Nazis after World War II.
General Eaton wrote in a commentary in The New York Times that "Rumsfeld is not competent to lead America's armed forces," and that President Bush should accept the resignation that Rumsfeld has offered in the past. Mr. Eaton was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004. Full Story >> |
