[A-List] Major voice of British finance capital gives the Black Spot to Rumsfeld, Bush

["James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Original message: Fred Feldman, Marxmail

A major voice of British finance capital gives the Black Spot to the
leaders of the Iraq war.



>From The Mail and Guardian, 5/12/04:
 <http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=66198>
http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=66198

Financial Times: Bush is not up to the job

London

Britain's influential Financial Times newspaper on Wednesday demanded
the resignation of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over the abuse
and torture of Iraqi prisoners and issued a stinging criticism of his
boss, George Bush.

"Donald Rumsfeld professes to take responsibility for the outrages at
Abu Ghraib prison [near Baghdad]. But nobody will believe it until he
and others at the top of the command chain are fired," the FT said in
an editorial.

The paper gave a damning assessment of the US-led occupation of Iraq,
which it called "a seamless catalogue of errors and misjudgements, of
arrogance and ignorance", and said Bush should take the blame for the
failure.

"If he cannot take the essential minimum of measures to restore his
country's reputation, he does not deserve to stay in the White House,"
the daily said.

"He [Bush] is not up to the job. This is not a moral judgment, but a
practical one. The world is too complex and dangerous for the pious
simplicities and arrogant unilateralism of George W. Bush," the FT
said in a separate article.