Gen. Taguba lashes out vs torture, says US needs to heed lessons of Abu Ghraib

[maddezmom]

By RODNEY J. JALECO
ABS-CBN North America News Bureau


US Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (Ret.)

WASHINGTON D.C. - US Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba paid a steep price for exposing the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Three years later and now a civilian, he is speaking out again, this time against the alleged use of torture on terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay.

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“We have a policy of torture that exists in this country today,” Taguba told his audience at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of the American Indian Monday evening.

He was part of a panel invited to speak about Asian Americans in the US military.

“Torture is a moral issue,” he stressed.

“In the military we profess to ascribe to the laws of warfare. Our nation is one of the 194 nations that signed the Geneva Convention along with a series of other conventions against torture.

“We told our troops not do anything illegal that would put our nation at risk. And now we have this issue of torture which is an issue of ambiguity where we try to follow the rules of war and at the same time we have a policy that says it’s okay to protect the CIA,” Taguba explained.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. “We have a policy of torture that exists in this country today,”

Yes we do indeed.

And what will this country say when it's Americans being tortured by other nations?

But of course it's ok when we do it! (chant the rightwingnuts)

No it isn't.

[Solly Mack]

2. Prosecute.Prosecute.Prosecute.