The interrogation room is set. Four men face two barrages of lawmakers eager to get information. The four officials and their attendants are dressed in expensive suits and are allowed to leave when the examination is through. The four under the microscope aren’t subject to name-calling or torture or degrading rituals involving attack dogs or blindfolds and aren’t arrested or fired until proven guilty. This is America, and our government and its military are above all that aren’t they?For Donald Rumsfled, the doody has hitteth the fan, yet it pales in comparison to the nauseating acts against Iraqi prisoners that he was responsible for in their own country, a supposedly free and better one with the US military snapping at their heels.To tell the truth, I don’t give a damn about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s problem at the moment. I mean, honestly, hard-working Americans such as myself should not have to worry about military ethics in Iraq after studying for finals for six hours. I suppose I care just a little though, since the press is incorrectly to blame according to military and republican officials. To sum the story up for all of you out there, it was brought to the military chain of command’s attention in January that an untrained military reserve, consisting of an entire brigade, was not trained with the knowledge of the Geneva Convention statutes. These statutes preserve basic rights and give respect to prisoners of war in regards to guarding them. In that respect, the military police guarding Iraqi prisoners, in the prison known as Abu Ghraib, were photographed and videotaped abusing and degrading the prisoners, stripping them naked and forcing them into bizarre positions with fellow inmates while blind-folded or hooded while next to attack dogs. Since beginning an investigation in January, apparently more photos and videos were taken by the MPs themselves, which were later leaked to the press unofficially at the beginning of late March and into April. Just as a captain traditionally goes down with his ship, Democrats, liberals and even some Republicans are asking for Rumsfeld’s resignation, including the perpetrator’s and their commanding officers, for his and others down the chain of command’s ignorance in dealing with this problem quickly enough from the get go. Rumsfeld is in the position of blaming the American press as the problem, not realizing that even if the American public did not have any knowledge thus far of the abuse and deaths of some 20 prisoners, it would still be a problem. Sure, Rumsfeld would not be under fire from state lawmakers from the press’ exploitation of these events, but if the military training had followed through with up-to-date foreign policies, there would be no problem. Since the system isn’t operating correctly and foreign tensions are what they are, the problem should not be left to the press but to the military-appointed American officials running the prison system in Iraq. Sadly, the secretary of defense’s response time was way lame and it cost him dearly. On May 7, lawmakers of two panels, the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee, investigated him and his associates. President Bush has already promised that he will refuse to fire Rumsfeld. Already, officers involved with the conflict are being drawn up on charges for their disorderly and abusive conduct. You’d think that, as head honcho, Rumsfeld would take responsibility for his underlings’ actions and take action to discipline them as well as pay the piper himself. But he won’t because he believes that this controversy is merely a political issue in the agenda of Democrats to damage the Republican administration. What he does not understand is, despite the thousands of investigations and meetings that take place in our military, our foreign policy is before a loaded cannon with the fuse lit. The international community is pissed off with America’s stance and actions toward the occupation of Iraq, and controlling their country in gross corruption. Before the slobbering wolves are fed, here’s what we ought to do: first, remove and discipline the low-ranking officers who are primarily at fault; second, restore order to the prison system in Abu Ghraib; third, renew the training our soldiers at home should have received before going overseas; and fourth, replace the men in charge with people who won’t make the same mistake.In order to regain international trust, Rumsfeld, or someone near his position, must take the fall for the purpose of feeding the wolves, for the defining notion that because a top-ranking official, military or otherwise, got careless, his carelessness is to blame and should be dealt with to appease an angry world audience.