Posted on 07/05/2008 8:00:50 PM PDT by Red Steel
When a distinguished American military commander accuses the United States of committing war crimes in its handling of detainees, you know that we need a new way forward.
“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Antonio Taguba, the retired major general who investigated abuses in Iraq, declares in a powerful new report on American torture from Physicians for Human Rights. “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
The first step of accountability isn’t prosecutions. Rather, we need a national Truth Commission to lead a process of soul searching and national cleansing.
That was what South Africa did after apartheid, with its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and it is what the United States did with the Kerner Commission on race and the 1980s commission that examined the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Today, we need a similar Truth Commission, with subpoena power, to investigate the abuses in the aftermath of 9/11.
We already know that the United States government has kept Nelson Mandela on a terrorism watch list and that the U.S. military taught interrogation techniques borrowed verbatim from records of Chinese methods used to break American prisoners in the Korean War — even though we knew that these torture techniques produced false confessions.
It’s a national disgrace that more than 100 inmates have died in American custody in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo. After two Afghan inmates were beaten to death by American soldiers, the American military investigator found that one of the men’s legs had been “pulpified.”
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Exactly how did Major General Jerk determine that the Bush Administration committed war crimes?
Kristof was a key player in the fake Valarie Plame story. His career is a joke.
That certainly sounds like an impartial group; who could possibly oppose physicians, or human rights?
This general should be taken into custody by the FBI as a material witness to criminal activities. I’m wondering if he is ready to name names.
Antonio Taguba, the retired major general who investigated abuses in Iraq,
Kristof, the first lying fraud to begin the hype of what became Plamegate — yes, we sure need a “Truth Commission” to put Kristof, the Wilsons, and all the other depraved fraud artists of the left under a spotlight. SO much treason in the past 5+ years, where to begin?
Bill Clinton kept Mandela on a terrorism watch list?! How "progressive" of him.
...and that the U.S. military taught interrogation techniques borrowed verbatim from records of Chinese methods used to break American prisoners in the Korean War — even though we knew that these torture techniques produced false confessions.
Yes, the US military TRAINS service people in how to RESIST such interrogations...of course that's a little too complicated for the "liberal" mind.
Here are some observations by the noted columnist Nicholas D. Kristof :
” Among those I admire most are the military lawyers who risked their careers, defied the Pentagon and antagonized their drinking buddies” ... )Gee next thing you know they’ll risk getting shot at)... “all for the sake of Muslim terror suspects..”
But it isn’t only those toiling in air conditioned offices in Washington that Nicholas D. Kristof would bring to our attention. He does take care to mention the efforts of those more humble: “....two Afghan inmates were beaten to death by American soldiers, and the American military investigator found that one of the men’s legs had been “pulpified.”
But wait...This is the 4th of July weekend and Nicholas D. Kristof always searches hard to find the good in humanity: “Yet there were heroes including civil liberties groups and lawyers for detainees.” !!!!!!!
I don’t understand why we need a Truth Commission when we have Nicholas D. Kristof to set us straight. He’s a one man re-education camp. Gotta go I just barfed all over my keyboard.
Where were they when John McCain and other guests at the Hanoi Hilton regularly had their shoulders pulled out of their sockets?
Typical nutcase agenda projection......
......Declare that there is no longer "any question", "the debate is over", "the science is settled".
They have taken a previously valid concept or argument and rendered it useless for those who would use it properly.
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