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• Evaluating Secretary Rumsfeld
  Senate Democrats plan to push for a vote of "no confidence" in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week, saying he's responsible for the failure to stabilize Iraq. The vote would only be symbolic, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist dismissed it as "political gamesmanship."11:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Joseph Galloway: Columnist for the McClatchy newspaper chain. Galloway has spent 40 years as foreign affairs and war correspondent, and is the co-author of "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young: Ia Drang -- The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam."
  More from MPR
  Comparing the war on terror to World War II (08/31/2006)
  Rumsfeld resists calls for resignation (04/18/2006)
  Remembering the battle of Ia Drang (11/14/2005)
  The current state of the U.S. military (01/02/2004)
• Bush proposes trials for Guantanamo detainees
  President Bush says the U.S. has to be "capable of defending herself" so he's pressing Congress to legislate new rules for trying terror suspects. He outlines his proposal in a speech Wednesday afternoon. We also hear from Dr. Steven Miles, who has criticized doctors who participated in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.12:06 p.m.
  More from MPR
  Minnesota doctor questions physicians' actions at Abu Ghraib (08/23/2004)
  The ethics of tsunami relief (02/18/2005)
  Two Minnesota voices for human rights (08/16/2006)
  The case against Guantanamo (07/24/2006)
  Guantanamo detainee status (07/31/2006)
  Uncertainty at Guantanamo (06/30/2006)

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