Senate report: Rumsfeld to blame for detainee abuse
RAW STORY
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration “conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees,” claims a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday.
According to the committee, prisoners were tortured in the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other US military installations. Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) were responsible for the content of the Senate’s findings.
The report determined that placing the blame on “a few bad apples,” as Bush administration officials attempted to do in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, is inappropriate.
The policies were adopted after government assessments determined waterboarding and other torture techniques were “100 percent effective” at breaking the wills of US officers who underwent the military’s Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape program.
The report finally claims that Rumsfeld’s torture policies “damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies and compromised our moral authority.”
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Bush, Cheney and the whole lot need to pay for their crimes…… no matter how long it takes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o
Rumsfield a liar completely,huh,,,,,,
impeach!
impeaching bush !!!! & company, they should be made to wash,dress,nurse the boy Ali, that has no legs and arms.and all those millions they
have distroyed their lives, and see the mental angish they will face the rest of their days….. WHO is the warmongers that put the millions of
$$$$ in their
who is behind arms manafacture, and if there are no wars in the world how can they try out new tech,
and this is called in the name of peace,and peace keeping forces, what will that child that made the headlines ALI, who will never be able
to do a simple thing as to satch an itch. maybe there should be some hard hit ads of the effects of what people are left with, the physical and
mental damage to all concerned, of course bush and company should be held to answer, and work nursing with theses victims of his horrors
altogether they are worse then nazi germany was, and of course, they use god as an excuse that they are doing the right thing..SHAME!!!!!!!