5/11/2004

Listening now to the senate armed service committee interview general Antonio Taguba, who authored the report exposing torture in Iraq. Seems a very sober type of guy, kind of an armyhead. Dry yet captivating policy-level stuff on the rules around use of police dogs and such, alternated with sweeping remarks about "failures of leadership." Though it doesn't seem any solid culpability is going to come out of it, I think the "few bad eggs" posture put forth by the white house is doomed to fail. It may be no superior officers can be proven to have ordered or stood by while people were stripped, raped, deprived of sleep, attacked by dogs, and (some of them) even killed, but those in charge are clinging to a pretty thin thread of downward-pointing blame.

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