Posted on 06/18/2008 11:51:27 AM PDT by Abathar
he two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.
In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, as Seymour M. Hersh reported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement.
Now, in a preface to a Physicians for Human Rights report based on medical examinations of former detainees, Taguba adds an epilogue to his own investigation.
The new report, he writes, "tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individual's lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A budding wannabe Wesley Clark II.
Calling the ghost of General George S. Patton: Slap this idiot.
“...horrific detainee abuse” ?
Why do we have to talk about Abu Grahb again?
They cut off people’s heads, and it’s not as newsworthy or shocking to the MSM as our people putting underwear on their heads, and the other alleged “torture” we were involved in?
“...horrific detainee abuse” ?
putting underwear on their heads
Another clown with stars who thinks he has a future in the RAT Party.Or the ACLU (as if there’s a difference).
The election is coming up and they are trying everything they can to keep this crap in the forefront of people’s minds I guess.
My band camp initiation was more humiliating and torturous than what those detainees went through, someone needs to counter this with the true facts again so the sheep can make an informed and not emotional decision once and for all.
Not to worry General. I’m sure the Supreme Court will be more than glad to let these mutts sue the government in civil court for their phony claims.
Since it was on last night, this monologue from “Animal House” seemed germaine.
“The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests.
We did.
But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behaviour of a few sick, perverted individuals.
If you do,shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system?
And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?
I put it to you, Greg. Isn’t this a.n indictment of our entire American society?
Well you can do what you want to us but we won’t sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!”
Because we're winning in Iraq, so the Dims and MSM have to go back to talking about "torture" and WMD's.
“Several detainees” is not “systematic. It’s “anecdotal” at worst and an “anomoly” at best.
I wish the lefties would leave Bush alone. Yeaa Bush!
I waded through the whole article and saw no specific examples of what was meant by “horrific abuse”. 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, but that was what was done by Al Queda in Iraq 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...
So, while I am not saying that we should follow the AQIZ example, in perspective to the “horrific abuse” rendered with very little condemnation by the Democrats and their supporters at the Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, etc., what was done that deserves resurrecting this as an issue?
My guess is they want sheeple to correlate Republicans to torture.
What worries them is that McCain is already there but on the other side of the issue, so they want to suggest that he will continue this "horrible trend" our barbaric armed forces are perpetrating on innocent Muslims.
I can't even bend my mind far enough to figure out how these people think anymore.
Just think of gaining power at any price and the destruction of reason and common sense as one of your tactics. That will get you headed down the right track but that is not all of the story.
Physicians for Humans Rights is financed by Tides and OSI. This was yet another George Soros election-year production.
I know this is dead and buried, but it's good to look back and identify the Spooky Dude's handiwork for future reference.
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