Aspartame - Donald Rumsfeld and Nutrasweet. As calls for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign are prompting questions from Senators, about possible breakdowns in the Pentagon chain of command leading to prisoner abuse in Iraq, Betty Martini founder of Mission Possible, an international Aspartame resistance movement, writes to Senator Biden to explain that allowing torture of prisoners in Iraq may not have been the only reprehensible action Rumsfeld should answer for. Martini says that Aspartame, a toxic sweetener approved against better scientific judgement by an FDA Commissioner personally installed by Rumsfeld when he was working on president Reagan s transition team, is killing thousands and the evidence is being covered up by a pliant FDA... http://www.communicationagents.com /sepp/2004/05/07/aspartame_gate_when_donald_rumsfeld_was_ceo_of_searle.htm