U.S. General Says Bush Admin Committed War Crimes

[kpete]

If the General that investigated the abuse thinks it's a war crime -- shouldn't the rest of us?

Note the SIX OTHER PRISONS statement and the years of 2001 through 2005. The famous Abu ghraib story came out in 2004. This means torturing and abuse was happening way past that time that we were told it was just "A Few Bad Apples" that committed the crimes:

Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the U.S. investigation into the abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, was quoted as telling Britain's Daily Telegraph in an article Wednesday that he agreed with Obama's decision not to release the pictures...

According to the Telegraph, the new photos depicted much more serious abuses than previously documented. One photo reportedly showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner and another was said to show a male translator raping a male detainee, the paper reported.

The Telegraph said the photos related to 400 cases of alleged abuse between 2001 and 2005 at Abu Ghraib and six other prisons.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/28/736246/-U.S.-General-Says-Bush-Admin-Committed-War-Crimes
http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/05/28/general-taguba-says-unreleased-abu-ghraib-photos-show-rape/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/28/report-retired-general-claims-abuse-photos-depict-rape-torture/

[havocmom]

1. It will be interesting watching the chicken-hawks respond to this one

They so love to point to generals and tell us to listen to them.

[blm]

2. Yes, but, why wouldn't bigname Dems back up Kerry and Dean when they called for Rumsfeld to go

and for indepth investigations into Bush administration's handling of prisoners?

Funny how silent those powerful Dems with ACCESS to microphones and cameras could be, eh?

Refusing to back up the Dem nominee THREE TIMES when he called for Rummy to go in 2003 and 2004? Our most famous Dems lead the Judas wing of the Democratic party.

[Octafish]

3. When the president does it, that means it's not illegal.

"And if they can be made to believe that, we can make them believe anything."