Brent Budowsky: Abu Ghraib Cover-up About to Explode

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8237

Abu Ghraib Cover-up About to Explode
by Brent Budowsky | Jun 21 2007

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At some point Gen. Taguba will be called to testify publicly and will prove one of the most explosive witnesses in six years, while investigative reporters and almost certainly congressional committees are currently looking into Abu Ghraib.

The implications of this are enormous because they go to potential perjury and giving false testimony to Congress and investigators, and lead outward throughout the dark side of the Bush years.

There is a high probability that investigation of the Abu Ghraib crimes and cover-up will lead upward to Donald Rumsfeld and his coterie of neoconservative aides and their shadow CIA run through the Department of Defense.

There is a substantial possibility this leads to the role of Alberto Gonzales on the range of torture issues at the Department of Justice and during his years as White House Counsel.

There is significant possibility this leads to Vice President Cheney, the most aggressive advocate of what the world considers torture of any senior official anywhere in the free world.

Gen. Taguba should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his honor, integrity and courage throughout this shameful episode and for having the honor to speak out publicly, visibly and unequivocally now.

The stakes are high and the storm clouds are gathering for those who committed, ordered or covered up crimes of torture.

but there's bound to be a new season of american idol.

that would be a good place to start?

Gen. Taguba has what Bush-n-Cheney and all the rest of their cronies will never know:

INTEGRITY.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh

...and even then only as far as they can throw them.

The point being: For the same reason, NAZIs hate Liberals.

I would like to see Congress make it clear that torture is not legal and that America will not stand for imprisonment
w/o charges and a trial. It's one thing to have POWs, these people have not been treated as POWs but as criminals
w/o the right of trial.

They have been smeared with their own shit, raped and murdered and that was the warm-up exercise.

I don't have words for how I feel. I only hope I never see Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales or Yu on the street, It will end with my incarceration.

-Hoot

mistreated, I remember seeing "sketches" of a group of US soldiers beating an 8 year old girl. I do not know
how there has been no accountability, the Republicans even investigated Clinton's Christmas card mailings. Why
has there been nothing done, and I don't believe that they did not know. Of course, they knew and looked the
other way.

Because of his honor, integrity, and courage. These are traits that those who support Bush and his agenda will never possess, and this includes those general officers like Betrayus, Pace, Casey, Abizaid, Myers, and all the others who are nothing more then the reproductions of those generals that followed Hitler's order without question or the concept of morality.

Is it too late for this situation to have any effect on the Busholini Regime?

is clearly culpable in this mess, as witnessed by Taguba. I look forward to seeing what happens, and fervently hope something does!

so long, if it happens, I won't believe it at first and it would take awhile to sink in.

So far, I am waiting in vain.

Sorry, Bu$h. There ain't enough sand in this world to save your despicable ass.

I seem to remember something about a Judge's order being ignored.

There's supposed to be a set of pictures and tapes out there somewhere that will make the first look like a sunday school picnic, the ones that memory pill roberts kept suppressing, where are they and now that we have the Senate why in the hell aren't they out there.

in testimony to Congress on 2/14/2007

http://www.aclu.org/search/search_wrap.html?account=436ac9516921&q=abu+ghraib+video&sortby=rank&affiliate=select+one&type=&range=year&from_month=month&from_day=day&from_year=year&to_month=month&to_day=day&to_year=year

I was beginning to doubt these criminals would ever get busted because they just IGNORE subpoenas!
And congress does basically nothing about it!

Check out Olberman's piece on this in the video section.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x35430

Are Democrats really going to go out of their way to further call the Iraq war into question (and with it, the candidates who voted for it)?

But Your Guy isn't exactly a peace lover.

Besides, he's a Republican. We are Democrats (or Democrat-friendly) here.

Hillary Clinton did, however support the Iraq War, and she blames the Iraqi government for screwing it up.

What movie is that from?

Besides, it should be pretty obvious that a Rudy Giuliani supporter wouldn't make it to 600 posts on DU.

I was kidding, thought it might be funny.

At least my nickname isn't Mitt.

RE: Michael Bolton

"Why don't you just go as 'Mike'?"
"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks"

Yeah, i've seen that movie a few times ;)

but I doubt she would be brave enough.

It's about to happen! The whole deck of cards is about to collapse! The bastards are finally about to be punished! Birds will sing again, and we'll have a blue sky and fluffy white clouds overhead, and fields of flowers all around us!

Sure.

and did nothing. Like this will somehow be different.

We want to honor this man, not insult him further.

Congress is bust. Not a thing will be done to any of the criminals who are roaming free in and around what used to be our Government.

but I'll believe it when I see it.

What's under water is what the higher-ups knew and when they knew it.

Can it be?

Could this be the berg that does in their Tyrannic?

they get to them. Do people really care that we torture? I am sure wondering. :shrug: