2,000 vets call for release of more Abu Ghraib photos

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Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), a nonpartisan veterans’ organization with 12,000 members, called for a commission to investigate torture allegations today, in response to the Pentagon refusal to release photos and videos from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the group said in a release Monday. Details follow.
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In an open letter, signed by more than 2,000 veterans and supporters (including 5 flag-rank officers and more than 200 commissioned officers), the veterans urged Congress and the President to “commit — immediately and publicly — to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on the detention and interrogation practices of U.S. military and intelligence agencies deployed in the war on terror.”

How can Republicans possibly condone Bush’s stonewalling on this? I wish we could force the issue and force them to defend hiding photos and videos of torture, abuse and murder.
From all reports, there exists in these hidden photos proof of severe abuse of children… CHILDREN! What kind of monsters are running this war?

These people aren’t afraid to speak out against this most outrageous and callous attempt to hide the truth:

Charles Sheehan-Miles, a 1991 Gulf War veteran and the group’s executive director, said, “Once again the administration is fighting to prevent any possible public accountability for its policies, instead choosing to blame it all on the troops. To court-martial privates while high ranking officials get promoted is damaging to the very principle of command responsibility and undermines the U.S. military.”

Veterans for Common Sense is part of a coalition of civil liberties groups responsible for a lawsuit and subsequent release of thousands of pages of details on torture and abuse at the hands of the US military. Sounds like they’re not going to take this stonewalling lying down.

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