Taking the Bush administration's attitude to the obvious conclusion

Made soldiers think this:

"I don't see it as an execution, sir; I see it as killing the enemy," said Lopezromo, adding that Marines consider all Iraqi men as part of the insurgency.

Echoing the statement General Taguba heard:

...the abused detainees were 'only Iraqis.'

Dehumanizing, humiliating, debasing. Who on earth allowed our military to be contaminated with such crass ideas? Gee... who could it have been, I wonder?

In an interview with Hersh in New Yorker , Major General Antonio Taguba who led the first military investigation in 2004 into human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior knowledge of what had happened. Gen Taguba also claimed in the interview that President George Bush also "had to be aware" of the atrocities despite saying at the time of the scandal that he had been out of the loop until he saw images in the US media.