The General’s Report

 

Politics

“How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. […] ‘I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable.’” - full story