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John Conyers: “I regret to come here this morning to again call for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. The…”

On the recordMay 19, 2004
I regret to come here this morning to again call for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. The pictures, the videos that continue of our troops humiliating prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the acts of retaliation by Iraqi militants, the graphic accounts of sexual and physical abuse that go on and on and on, this is not about the failure of some rogue elements in the military. Quite the contrary. It is a part of the total failure of leadership at our highest levels, and I refer my colleagues to The New Yorker magazine article by the distinguished investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan
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Calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a discussion on military conduct.

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