Take it away, Major General Taguba:
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. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.Having read the report, do you have any details to add that might illuminate why Taguba feels that way, Mr. Ackerman?
Some detainees were administered electric shocks, suspended by their arms from great heights and one showed "anal scars consistent with sexual trauma," according to one physician who examined the detainees, Dr. Sondra Crosby of Boston Medical Center.
[A] detainee, "Amir," was arrested in Iraq in August 2003 by U.S. troops. He endured a month of "being kept in a small, dark room" before transfer to Abu Ghraib. At the infamous prison -- around the time it was "Gitmo-ized" by Guantanamo commander Gen. Geoffrey Miller -- Amir was "sodomized with a broomstick and forced to howl like a dog while a soldier urinated on him," the report said. Similarly released without charge, he told Physicians for Human Rights that "no sorrow can be compared to my torture experience in jail."
Our Administration is evil, immoral and insane. And to be completely candid, I feel evil and immoral for not doing anything to try to stop it, relying instead on the inadequate institutions we have to check Executive power.