” ‘From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service,’ Taguba said. ‘And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values. I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable [for torture].’ ”
– Seymour M. Hersh, “THE GENERAL’S REPORT,” The New Yorker online, June 25, 2007