Posted on 06/18/2007 4:05:41 PM PDT by jude24
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who was the lead investigator of military personnel working at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, tells New Yorker magazine that he was forced into retirement because of his findings. Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter for the magazine, talks with Michele Norris about his interview with Taguba, who gave some details that were not made public before his comments were published this week in the magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Ah yes. The ever reliable Sy Hersh. Fetid POS.
So did Sy Hersh make up Taguba’s allegations? Or is it easier to ignore the messenger because you don’t like the message?
I though Taguba was a traitor! Sey Hirsch is an anti-American creep liar.
I ignore Sy based on his track record of lies. And to be honest, If the bastard chokes on a chicken bone and dies, I won’t care.
Do traitors tend to become Major Generals?
Lawrence T. Di Rita, Rumsfeld's former spokesman at the Pentagon, disputed several of Taguba's characterizations. "Secretary Rumsfeld appreciated that General Taguba had a tough job to do and did it to the best of his abilities," Di Rita said. "I only observed Secretary Rumsfeld treating him with the respect that a general officer performing a challenging assignment deserved."I don't know if Taguba's allegations are accurate. If they are, however, they are disturbing - and they should not be rejected merely as "He's a traitor."
Hey dude...I said what I think.
He should be shot just for saying that name.
And what you think indicates that you uncritically reject anything inconvenient. Anyone who says something you don't like is a "traitor."
Well said but add lying.
Pissant, you beat me to it.
Again.
Methinks you are Taguba!
I wish I could claim to have served with his distinction. No, I am just an average American guy.
Look....anyone who go to Sy Hirsch to tell his story is SUSPECT....how’s that?
Not necessarily. Sy Hirsch broke Abu Gharaib. He's a logical choice to go to for a story related to it.
Notice the MSM barely reported on their trials for fear the public would know exactly what happened that nite.
Sounds like you have a little Taguba envy, dude.
I assume you must know a great deal more about every detail of Taguba’s work than appears on this thread, because to trust anything coming out of NPR and/or Sy Hersch is quite foolish indeed. So you must know that every aspect of Taguba’s work was conducted with great professionalism, that he was never involved in any leak(s) of info about Abu Ghraib or anything else, etc. I consider anyone who is amenable to joining a Sy Hersch propaganda campaign as suspect, so I would not leap to imagine that there could not have been any good grounds to question Taguba’s performance. Maybe there was, maybe not, but we certainly don’t have anything yet on this thread to tell us anything except that this guy is talking to the vile and loathsome Sy Hersch...... that does not inspire condidence in his rectitude, judgment, and sense of duty.
He's a General. I respect him. Your point being?
What about the substantive allegations contained within the piece? Or are you just going to snipe at the General and the journalist reporting it?
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