The General’s Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.

In The New Yorker.
They knew.
They lied.

Mainstream Baptist:

This administration’s debasement of the public trust and its criminal contempt for even the most basic human rights and decency, as revealed in this article, ought to prompt righteous indignation in every American. That it doesn’t, demonstrates the depths of degradation into which America has fallen under this administration. Degradation either cheered or condoned by jingoistic right-wing Christians and neo-conservative ideologues alike.

Nothing discredits the gospel in the eyes of an unbelieving world more than the docility of evangelical Christians in the face of such demonstrably depraved leadership.

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Fareed Zakaria Newsweek. Beyond Bush: How to Restore America’s Place In the World

35 people were killed when an Afghan Police Academy bus was blown up in Kabul, one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of the Taliban. 200 Afghan police have been killed this year.
Lieutenant General Bantz J. Craddock mentioned in Hersch’s article is now head of NATO forces, and overseas Afghanistan.

Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada’s chief of defence staff, told reporters in Kandahar on Sunday that training for Afghan police has been a neglected area.

“So there is a window of perhaps more vulnerability with the police which the Taliban have seen. That’s why they go after them. We’ve got to work with them to make sure that window is closed as rapidly as possible,” he said.

The current head of NATO forces in Afghanistan is Lieutenant General Bantz J. Craddock mentioned in Hersch’s article.