Seymour Hersh has a knack of being able to participate in the unearthing of the dark secrets of the government. In the current New Yorker, he details the horrendous story of General Antonio Taguba who was assigned the responsibility to investigate Abu Grahib only to find out that his honest report earned him the right to immediate exile and then told that he had to retire.
General Taguba shares the naive expectation that he thought that they wanted to know! Sec. Rumsfeld's statements of ignorance of what was occurring at Abu Grahib are totally incredible. His testimony before Congress about this ignorance of abuse is totally untrue.
I am aware that none of us are immune to the weaknesses associated with humanity. What continues to be absurd is that our government preaches the virtues of democracy with the United States as a prize example, only to see evidence over and over again that the prize is jaundiced!
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