Commentary: Gen. Taguba knew scandal went to the top

[babsbunny]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/41772.html

By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Tony Taguba knew something about prisoners in wartime long before the Pentagon ordered him to investigate the torture and shameful mistreatment of Iraqi detainees revealed by those soldier photographs taken inside Abu Ghraib prison.

You see, his father, Sgt. Tomas Taguba, was a soldier in the famed Philippine Scouts and was, briefly, a prisoner of the Japanese after Bataan fell in the opening days of our war in the Pacific. Sgt. Taguba escaped during the Death March and spent the next three years spying on the Japanese and relaying the information to U.S. forces.

After the war, the senior Taguba was allowed to enlist in the U.S. Army and served honorably and unsung until his retirement. His son was born in Manila in 1950 but grew up as American as apple pie, earned an ROTC commission at Idaho State University and was only the second Filipino-American to attain the rank of general in our Army.

Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba would undergo his own trial by fire when, in 2004, he was named by the Pentagon to conduct a carefully walled-in investigation of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

[global1]

1. And Where Did His Revealing This Get Us......

I think it was a story for maybe one day - if that. Not a lot of play in MSM. Again we gave *Co the pass on this. When are these people going to pay for their crimes?

[spanone]

2. seems the media is not interested in war crimes

[pansypoo53219]

3. course not.

they created the georgee monster.

[Disturbed]

4. 1K pages of Taguba's Report was never delievered to

Congress. The excuse was that those pages had not been copied off & would be delivered ASAP. They never arrived. Congress & the RW Corp Media do not want War Crimes of the Busholini Regime to be revealed &/or prosecuted.