Rumsfeld Retracts Apology
Tim at Road to Surfdom has both versions of a military news article reporting Rumsfeld's reaction to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. The first is titled "Rumsfeld Apologizes to Iraqi Victims of Prison Abuse". That was pulled, and replaced with an article titled, "Prison Abuse 'Unacceptable, Un-American', Rumsfeld Says." One difference between the articles is that this sentence in the first article was removed from the second:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld apologized today to Iraqis abused by American prison guards in Abu Ghraib.
As Tim says, "I guess they really don't want us to get the impression that the Secretary would apologise. So noted."
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