Former General: Bush A War Criminal

Posted at 11:34 am on Thursday, June 19, 2008, in Uncategorized, and tagged abu ghraib, bush, iraq.

Will Bush face trial at the Hague after his term ends?

“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,” [Maj. Gen. Antonio] Taguba [the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, who's now retired] wrote. “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

Taguba, whose 2004 investigation documented chilling abuses at Abu Ghraib, is thought to be the most senior official to have accused the administration of war crimes. “The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture,” he wrote.

A White House spokeswoman, Kate Starr, had no comment.

I’m utterly amazed that an administration that has insisted it was “listening to the generals on the ground” has no comment when one said general says that the president is a war criminal.

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