Joe Galloway: Bush & Co. authorized a systematic regime of torture - Salt Lake Tribune

Joe Galloway: Bush & Co. authorized a systematic regime of torture - Salt Lake Tribune: "Tony"Taguba knew something about prisoners in wartime long before the Pentagon ordered him to investigate the torture and shameful mistreatment of Iraqi detainees revealed by those soldier photographs taken inside Abu Ghraib prison. You see, his father Sgt. Tomas Taguba was a soldier in the famed Philippine Scouts and was, briefly, a prisoner of the Japanese after Bataan fell in the opening days of our war in the Pacific. Sgt. Taguba escaped during the Death March and spent the next three years spying on the Japanese and relaying the information to U.S. forces. After the war the senior Taguba was allowed to enlist in the U.S. Army and served honorably and unsung until his retirement. His son was born in Manila in 1950 but grew up as... [read full story]