Kerry calls for Rumsfeld to quit

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate John Kerry called yesterday for US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign over the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Mr Kerry also urged President George W Bush to appoint an independent group to recommend reforms after a report faulted all levels of the military for abuse at the Iraqi prison.

“It’s not just the little person at the bottom who ought to pay the price of responsibility,” Mr Kerry said at a Philadelphia union hall. “The buck doesn’t stop at the Pentagon.”