Iraq MPs welcome Rumsfeld departure

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IRAQI lawmakers welcomed the resignation of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld overnight, saying they held him responsible for many of the war-torn country's ongoing woes.

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"The resignation came late," said venerable Shiite politician Mahmud Othman. "He should have made it right after the scandal of Abu Ghraib in the Spring of 2004.

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For nationalist Sunni Arab politician Saleh al-Mutlak, a vocal opponent of the US-led invasion, the resignation represents an "awakening of the American conscious".

"Everything that Rumsfeld and his rule did in Iraq was against ethics and against humanitarian attitudes, and it does not reflect the policies of a civilized country like the United States," he said from Dubai.

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