This is what happens when you have a group of very top level decision makers who are responsible to one man, and one man only.

A general who investigated US troops sexually humiliating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison said in a report out Saturday that top Pentagon officials denied knowledge of lurid photographs of the acts.

Army Major General Antonio Taguba said he met with then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and other top officials and described to them some of the contents of a report he had prepared on the notorious prison.

But Rumsfeld testified before Congress the following day that he had no idea of the extent of the abuse, Taguba told the New Yorker magazine in an interview.

“He’s trying to acquit himself and a lot of people who are lying to protect themselves,” the magazine quoted him as saying, referring to Rumsfeld’s May 7, 2004 testimony.

Of course he lied, the whole Iraq war is based on lies. Bush lied about the danger Iraq posed, Cheney lied about WMD, Powell lied about Iraqi weapons, they all lied about the torture of prisoners, and then when they got caught lying they changed some definitions and were given a pass, and now 6 days / 6 weeks Rumsfeld is caught lying (again), …. the real question is just who in the Bush administration hasn’t lied about the Iraq war?