Abu Garib and Army Major General Anotnio M. Taguba

Please read THE GENERAL'S REPORT by Seymour M. Hersh in the June 25, 2007 issue of THE NEW YORKER.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh

“From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service,” Taguba said. “And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values. I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable.”

The stench of my country's evil has reached the nostrils of God.

Our leaders have abandoned the upward struggle in pursuit of oughtness—what we ought to be—based on our founding principles—our core values—for the pursuit of wealth and power.

We have exchanged our birthright for the proverbial bowl of porridge.

Once again the Hand is writing on the wall, "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting."

May God have mercy on the souls of we the people because justice would send us to Hell.