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Sy Hersh does it again (no surprise there)...I think all future Pulitzer's should be renamed to Hersh's frankly... now before you read the below snips, I suggest a stiff glass of gin or whiskey. I am horrified and I have seen some of this information before... but not all of it and certainly not some of the descriptions of what was done to detainees. In short, Donald Rumsfeld (and everyone in any way related to this) must be charged on war crimes and on obstruction of justice. Period. If this is not done, we - as a nation - can never claim any moral argument in the future,and that's only the best possible scenario. Read and try to fully understand what these revelations mean (emphasis mine below):
...The previous week, revelations about Abu Ghraib, including photographs showing prisoners stripped, abused, and sexually humiliated, had appeared on CBS and in The New Yorker. In response, Administration officials had insisted that only a few low-ranking soldiers were involved and that America did not torture prisoners. They emphasized that the Army itself had uncovered the scandal.
If there was a redeeming aspect to the affair, it was in the thoroughness and the passion of the Army’s initial investigation. The inquiry had begun in January, and was led by General Taguba, who was stationed in Kuwait at the time. Taguba filed his report in March."
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“Here . . . comes . . . that famous General Taguba—of the Taguba report!” Rumsfeld declared, in a mocking voice. The meeting was attended by Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld’s deputy; Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J.C.S.); and General Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, along with Craddock and other officials. Taguba, describing the moment nearly three years later, said, sadly, “I thought they wanted to know. I assumed they wanted to know. I was ignorant of the setting.”
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