This just posted from Reuters: U.S. Reveals Iraqi Prisoner Deaths as Scandal Grows 05/04/04 (my emphasis).
Two Iraqi prisoners were murdered by Americans and 23 other deaths are being investigated in Iraq and Afghanistan , the United States revealed on Tuesday as the Bush administration tried to contain growing outrage over the abuse of Iraqi detainees.
"The actions of the soldiers in those photographs are totally unacceptable and un-American," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said of humiliating images in the media of Iraqi prisoners. "Any who engaged in such action let down their comrades who serve honorably each day and they let down their country."
Army officials said the military had investigated the deaths of 25 prisoners held by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and determined that an Army soldier and a CIA contractor murdered two prisoners. Most of the deaths occurred in Iraq.
An official said a soldier was convicted in the U.S. military justice system of killing a prisoner by hitting him with a rock, and was reduced in rank to private and thrown out of the service but did not serve any jail time.
Come on, Rummy, when we're talking Geneva Conventions, real men don't care about "some convention", now do they?
And you didn't "feel even the slightest problem" with allies fighting alongside American troops and under their close direction in combat murdering prisoners of war back in 2001.
If Rummy had any sense of honor..., well, then he wouldn't be who he is, now would he?
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