pzarquon
May 6th, 2004, 01:57 PM
Leilehua grad wrote Iraq prison abuse report (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/May/04/ln/ln05a.html)
Honolulu Advertiser, May 4, 2004
As the fallout from the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal grows louder by the day, with calls for Donald Rumsfeld's ouster heard from several corners and with George W. Bush in full damage control mode (giving interviews to Arabic journalists that he'd never grant to domestic media, and finally apologizing on behalf of the country), the role played by one of our own grows more impressive.
Perhaps not surprisingly, a simple report, a basic document, helped ignite one of the biggest stories of the Iraq War: The Tabuga Report (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/). (Reader discretion is advised.) Its author, Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, is a 1968 graduate of Leilehua High School, and the second Filipino-American general in the history of the Army.
Tabuga's role is not a happy one. The report was clearly not an easy one to write. But his work here is extremely important, a job that needed to be done, and I salute him.
I'm not sure what's left to be said about Tabuga, unless someone here knows them or has further thoughts on his contribution to what will be a difficult chapter of our military's history. But I welcome them. If you want to comment on the scandal itself, on Rumsfeld or Bush, that might best be done in The American Asylum (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6).
Honolulu Advertiser, May 4, 2004
As the fallout from the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal grows louder by the day, with calls for Donald Rumsfeld's ouster heard from several corners and with George W. Bush in full damage control mode (giving interviews to Arabic journalists that he'd never grant to domestic media, and finally apologizing on behalf of the country), the role played by one of our own grows more impressive.
Perhaps not surprisingly, a simple report, a basic document, helped ignite one of the biggest stories of the Iraq War: The Tabuga Report (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/). (Reader discretion is advised.) Its author, Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, is a 1968 graduate of Leilehua High School, and the second Filipino-American general in the history of the Army.
Tabuga's role is not a happy one. The report was clearly not an easy one to write. But his work here is extremely important, a job that needed to be done, and I salute him.
I'm not sure what's left to be said about Tabuga, unless someone here knows them or has further thoughts on his contribution to what will be a difficult chapter of our military's history. But I welcome them. If you want to comment on the scandal itself, on Rumsfeld or Bush, that might best be done in The American Asylum (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6).