The System Was Lacking
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, May 7, 2004; Page A33
"The system worked."
That's what Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told NBC's Matt Lauer this week of the response to those despicable acts of abuse committed in our names in the most notorious of Saddam Hussein's prisons. It all came out, and all is well because the Defense Department investigated itself.
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A system that fixes itself when it breaks is NOT a system that is working... we need to get far far away from that nonsense.
Our economic system is NOT working: our war machinery is certainly not "working"...