Posted on 04/23/2009 10:00:20 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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 Guantanamo 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."
Taguba, whose 2004 investigation documented chilling abuses at Abu Ghraib, is thought to be the most senior official to have accused the administration of war crimes. "The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture," he wrote.
A White House spokeswoman, Kate Starr, had no comment.
Taguba didn't respond to a request for further comment relayed via a spokesman.
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You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives.
And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don’t want the truth.
Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ‘em as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post.
Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!
Electrical shocks? BS! Look’s like Soros bought him a retired general!
I’m starting to have visions of a basement in Ekatrinberg.
Its BS, but I have a terrible fear that one way or another, Bush will be murdered by the left.
He is as outspoken as he is ugly.... Another Bush hater. Send him back to his own country....
He’s jonesing for an interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
The “Won” stupidly unlocked a whole can of left wing beans.
Thanks Cindy. I don’t know what this guy’s goal is here. I do tend to doubt his story is immune to conflicting explanations that would put some of this in an entirely different light.
It’s strange how the Pentagon and the Democrat Controlled Senate can come up with a report that does not list the types of abuses he claims.
I’d have to admit to being very suspect of this.
I will also state that the Iraqi government would have been very angry if their citizens had been subject to such treatment. It would have made cohesive coordination almost impossible. For that reason alone, I am quite suspect of this guy.
“...the current administration...”? Did he say this Wednesday or back when President Bush was in office? I’m confused.
I wish someone [one of those poor mistreated prisoner/terrorists] would torture that bastard’s ass, then maybe he’d know what torture really is...uh, oh...my bad, after they got thru with him, he wouldn’t know anything, would he?...’cause his head would be separated from his body, laying on the floor between his feet or stuck on a pole somewhere.
“It would have made cohesive coordination almost impossible.”
I agree.
Typical lib tactic...take your eye off the ball...
I thought I saw him harvesting rice..
does anyone in their right mind think a President can possibly micromanage to that degree? Do they have any idea of why we call the federal government a leviathan? Its enormous.
The left wants a president that can micromanage to that degree.
its not possible of course.
I am just wondering which top official will be airbrushed out of the May Day Parade pictures on the front page of PRAVDA...
This site says Taguba is part of Obama for America, Obama’s campaign organization (along with other well known radicals.)
http://www.nndb.com/org/684/000167183/
DG
“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
We slapped around captured rabid insane enemies and made them do no more or less than we do violent aggressive criminals in our own prisons who refuse to comply with their captors.
This trash administration and it’s handlers will be held accountable for their sedition, aiding and abetting those who want to do our nation, it’s non combatants, our republic and our liberty harm.
Doom on em all.....my opinion.
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