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Bush administration committed war crimes

More revelations about the Worst President Ever and his corrupt administration.
General Accuses WH of War Crimes

The 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.

Related link: There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes, from firedoglake

Comments (2)

Jules [TypeKey Profile Page]:

Being the uber CSPAN junkie I am, I watched a good bit of the hearings last night with Senator Warners committee and the Army officers who wrote memos about all the reverse engineering that went on with the torture techniques at GitMo.. pretty intense stuff at 2 am last night.

odinseye2k [TypeKey Profile Page]:

Oh, it gets better:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/17/8241/44581

Maybe it will be the lawyers just like in Pakistan...

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