Army Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.) writes that "there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."All those reports of torture were like "college hazings". You know the type of frat boys they were talking about. Shoving broomsticks up pledges rectums, Stabbing them with screwdrivers through their cheek, electrical shocks that always had a doctor present to revive them if the died -- we only killed 108 of them and murdered 27.
... The report -- titled "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact" -- details medical evaluations of 11 former detainees held by the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. None were ever charged with any crime; all have since been released. The report describes how the 11 detainees suffered alleged beatings, sodomy, electric shock, involuntary medication, threats to their lives and families, shacklings, sleep deprivation, and other forms of abuse.
Taguba says "these men deserve justice as required under the tenets of international law and the United States Constitution. And so do the American people."
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Alberto Gonzales, and several others who were complicit need to face the same trials that we held for the Japanese and Nazis after World War II.
Those despicable pieces of garbage listed above have done what our country has stood against for the last 220 years. They tortured and murdered men in our name.
They deserve no leniency and should be prosecuted to full letter of the law. Imprisoned or executed, we will let a court decide.
As General Taguba, who 'has never voted for a Democrat in his life' and who is a born-again Christian, so eloquently states, we Americans "deserve that justice".
I look forward to that day.
