US General Talks of Bush War Crimes

I receive forwards from a group of conservatives every day- many, many forwards. One thing I have learned is the fact that they love to quote military people. If a military person says something, it is close to the word of God, it can't be questioned.

Here is something retired Major General Antonio Mario Taguba of the United States Army has to say:

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.

Found this in a great article on Alternet.org. Here is an excerpt (link to full article below):

The evidence confirming not only a deliberate policy of torture, but of conspiring in an illegal war of aggression and conducting a criminal occupation, continues to pile ever higher. Bush's own press secretary Scott McClellan has revealed in his book, What Happened, how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. Philippe Sands' new book, Torture Team, has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture -- circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross -- given to the CIA and shared with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice -- found that U.S. interrogation methods are "categorically" torture and that the "abuse constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted."

Full article here.