Rumsfeld will likely offer himself up as a sacraficial lamb. I'm not completely convinved that it's the rirght thing, or the wrong thing for him to do. He's the fall guy in a situation like this. Having no direct control over the entire military, yet bearing the full responsibility for any mis-actions on their part.

It's unfortunate that things happen, but that's life. You can never rule out a misdeed by an individual in a mass of people. The soldiers who claimed to have had no formal training on what to do and what not to do is a complete crock. Even the reserve units in the US army go through extensive training. So a fresh recruit would know the basics of what was crossing the line. For Rumsfeld to now be responsible for some overzealous 20 year old who went off and did something wrong just seems like a bit of injustice to me.

I'm not saying that the supposed torture of Iraqis was right. I'm simply not convinced that Rumsfeld is 100% to blame for that. Among everything else that he may or may not have done right with running the war, it is this one incident (or incidents) that will ultimately bring him down.