Posted on 06/19/2008 11:07:18 AM PDT by radar101
WASHINGTON – The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing war crimes and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
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How the hell did this guy get to be a Major General?
Check out his picture. He looks gay to me.
The Army has gone to hell.
I didn't think so.
Physicians for Human Rights.. a lefty group not mentioned until the 8th paragraph...
Wonder if Taguba is looking for a position in the Obama cabinet?
“sexual humiliation”
good thing they did not use farce, hyperbole and simile.
Ah, some news from Iraq. I thought the Drive By Media had forgotten about it.
In 2004 Taguba was assigned to report on prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq. In May of that year he published an extremely critical report that was leaked to the public.[9]
Later that May Major General Taguba was reassigned to the Pentagon to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for readiness, training and mobilization in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.[8]
In January of 2006, Taguba was instructed by General Richard A. Cody, the Army’s Vice-Chief of Staff, to retire by January of 2007. No explanation was given.[9] Taguba’s retirement, effective January 1, 2007 ended a 34 year career of military service.[6]
Oh I hope its true.
It would be fantastic if we really were torturing these thugs.
our grapes.
I wonder how Bush likes his new tone in Washington now?
He should be stripped of any military honors and demoted and have his pension taken away....then tries for treason.
He should be stripped of any military honors and demoted and have his pension taken away....then put on trial for treason.......sorry
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and PC.
I prefer to look at it as if ‘some members or former members’ of the military have gone to hell.
This guy isn’t fit to kiss the boots of 99.99999% of our members of the military.
This statement of his is pathetic. It plays right into the goals of the worst sorts around the world.
What a disgrace...
If you had ever seen the total devastation of whole villages caused by the indiscriminate use of hyperbole and simile, you wouldn't have such a cavalier attitude about these terrible weapons. And don't even get me started on the deadly use of farce by our soldiers.
There goes your credibility General. The "media" reports are usually uncritical replays of the accusations made by the human rights groups. Those accusations, in turn, are made by prisoners who have been trained to do just that. Now, what "government investigations" have found torture, General? You investigated Abu Grahib and found many disgusting things that can't credibly be lumped into the "torture" category without making it meaningless. So what other reports? Name one.
How do “medical experts” test someone for drinking urine years after the fact?
He kind of looks like Mr. Sulu
I understand he is getting married this week in California. Possible connection?
Trolling for Obama’s VP
Dear Mr. Strobel
This smells like yellow journalism. Another RETIED General attacks the Bush administration after he retired. If this were true and he had any honor he would have brought this up before he retired, and when he was involved with the investigation.
Where is his proof? Do you believe any traitor that comes up with allegations?
Also, how come the press always labels Conservative groups or Republican groups, but NEVER labels Liberal or Marxist groups?
Physicians for Human Rights are a bunch of Liberals that look for any chance to attack America. YOU NEVER hear them attack OUR enemies.
Saddam tortured by cutting off hands, breaking bones, and throwing tied prisoners off of walls. But the Physicians for Human Rights never said a word.
All America ask for is consistency and truth. But it appears that you have an agenda of putting a microscope on America and pandering to those that would kill us.
I find your article disgusting of it propaganda and you hate America agenda.
Exton
While the above actions are excessive by our western standards, they are very mild in comparison to what is done by terrorists like Al Queda in Iraq (AQIZ).
I have seen plenty of evidence of acts such as gouging out eyes, cutting out tongues, mutilating genitals, cutting off fingers, using electric drills to punch holes through knees, done by AQIZ and their followers. They had no problem condemning any Iraqi citizen and cutting off their heads in front of their families and neighbors. They would entertain themselves by raping mothers, wives, and daughters in front of their victims to increase the level of torture and humiliation before they killed them...
I do not advocate the use of torture but in perspective the “cruelties” described are mild. The moral and ethical issue is where to draw the line. Interestingly enough in John McCain we probably have one of the few people in this country with the experience to establish that line in an objective way.
That was the first thing I thought of too.
The same way Janice Karpinski got her star.
He looks Phillipino to me.
“He looks gay to me.”
“Don’t ask. Don’t te;;.”
But, yeah, he looks like a fish stick!
Farce, hyperbole, and simile are perfectly legitimate means of war, as long as you don’t mix metaphors.
Taguba: No direct order given for abuse
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/politics.abuse.main/index.html
Senate hearing in 2004
bump
What an embarassment to the Malay race!
Gen. Taguba has an ax to grind. He was passed over for promotion (someone I know from Hawaii told me about a conversation he had with a neighbor of his) and he had been on a warpath against Sec. Rumsfeld eversince.
To us American conservatives of Filipino origin, Gen. Taguba is a typical liberal loud-mouth.
Staff Sgt. Tomas Taguba left the Army ''without so much as a retirement ceremony to thank him for those 20 years of hard work and faithful service,'' General Taguba recalled with evident bitterness in a Veterans Day speech.
More than one complaint against the Army it seems.
The same way most of them did back in the early Clintoon years.
I was active duty in DC and watched as the real combat hardened veterans of the first Gulf War were pushed aside while some of the worst suck-ups I had ever seen were placed on the promotion lists.
I actually watched as men who had awards for being the best at what they did get passed over for people who had reprimands in their records and were useless!
Affirmative action.
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