ANOTHER AMERICAN HERO

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba did a report on the abuses at Abu Ghraib and had his career derailed has come out and called for simple justice in light of the recent revelations that senior members of the criminal Bush regime were pushing to legalize torture.

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
By Warren P. Strobel McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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.