"Here I am," Taguba recalled Rumsfeld saying, "just a Secretary of Defense, and we have not seen a copy of your report. I have not seen the photographs, and I have to testify to Congress tomorrow and talk about this." As Rumsfeld spoke, Taguba said, "He's looking at me. It was a statement."
from the issuecartoon banke-mail thisAt best, Taguba said, "Rumsfeld was in denial." Taguba had submitted more than a dozen copies of his report through several channels at the Pentagon and to the Central Command headquarters, in Tampa, Florida, which ran the war in Iraq. By the time he walked into Rumsfeld's conference room, he had spent weeks briefing senior military leaders on the report, but he received no indication that any of them, with the exception of General Schoomaker, had actually read it. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh And people wonder why we consider the US elites to be Nazis and thugs. -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
