82nd Airborne Commander: Rumsfeld should resign

Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq, called for Secretary General Rumsfeld's resignation on Thursday. The 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is the largest parachute force in the world, and one of the US military's elite divisions.

"Specifically, I feel he has micromanaged the generals who are leading our forces there," Swannack said in the telephone interview. "And I believe he has culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and, so, rather than admitting these mistakes, he continually justifies them to the press ... and that really disallows him from moving our strategy forward." [CNN]

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82nd Airborne Division [Global Security]