 masbury says: Maj. Gen. Taguba led the US Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and testified before Congress on his findings in May 2004. Taguba retired in January 2007, later alleging that Pentagon officials had ordered him to retire for being "overzealous" in his criticisms of the military. He writes here, in the Preface to the report "Broken Laws, Broken Lives." Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors. Jeesh, he sounds bitter. I wonder if that has colored his opinion. And the stripping of the flesh begins. Wait? Where is the automatic deference to the all mighty uniform? Typical neocon insight, silly. Defend the obviously indefensible by deriding the critic with the balls to shout the truth. Why are the supposedly conservative partisans so eager to overlook such obvious and flagrant illegal action which destroys the nobility of the very country they claim to love? The only reason I can see is greed, down to the tips of their corporatist toes. It makes me sick. I say tribalism. One guy, who got fired. If you have a job Bear, why dont' you go into work and start criticizing your boss and see how long you keep your job. And then, when you get fired, you can write a story about how horrible your boss was. And by the way. The guards at Abu are in prison now. Some for a very long time. Sounds like justice. Some of the guards are in prison. None of the private contractors where charged, and no higher ups except the NG general who was humiliated publicly to serve as a scapegoat. And do you think it stop there, it began in Gitmo and then went global in Abu Ghraib and Baghram airbase plus all those rendition cases. And why did he get fired? Because he wanted to do a proper investigation and guess what, Rummy felt all betrayed because he was going to air the Pentagon's dirty laundry. Funny how we must worship anyone in uniform as long as they say exactly what the Administration wants, but let them diverge from the party line and down goes Frasier! Combined with the release of the Senate's report this week, it is becoming clearer that the orders to torture illegally came from the White House. Though bitterness is a question one needs to ask, he hasn't changed his story since Abu Ghraib (other than updating it), and he was regarded by many as a true hero then. That we have here a General who has had led one of the most critical investigative panels in the world, and believes the data implicate the White House and the DOD, is a matter that we ignore at grave peril to our nation's most essential principles. For indeed, if he is correct that war crimes were committed by the top dogs, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush all had a personal motive ... |
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