Maj Gen 'Dogleash' Taguba's Japanese connection

[Taro Toporific]

The New York Times has a profile on Major General Antonio M. Taguba who testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq . Taguba's father had served during World War II and had been held captive by the Japanese.

The Times <hairloss-causing registration required> on May 11, 2004

General Taguba went out of his way in 2001 to call attention to what he described as the injustice the Army had accorded his father after a two-decade career that began in the Battle of Bataan in 1942, where he fought alongside American forces. He was captured by the Japanese, whose cruelties toward many of their prisoners has been well documented.
Staff Sgt. Tomas Taguba left the Army "without so much as a retirement ceremony to thank him for those 20 years of hard work and faithful service," General Taguba recalled with evident bitterness in a Veterans Day speech.

[gkanai]

I was watching the hearings online and was impressed with Taguba. The gossip channels say that his career in the Army is over though because he is the whistleblower (or the messenger of bad news as it were) and the Army's culture won't support such a guy at the highest levels, which is a sad indictment of the top brass of our military.

[kamome]

I was watching the hearings online and was impressed with Taguba. The gossip channels say that his career in the Army is over though because he is the whistleblower (or the messenger of bad news as it were) and the Army's culture won't support such a guy at the highest levels, which is a sad indictment of the top brass of our military.

I watched some of the hearings last night on CNN. He was impressive, and the senators all spoke warmly to him while being kind of pissy with officials of the administration and other military dopes at the hearing.