The Pentagon assigned Major General Jay W. Hood as the senior military officer in Pakistan, where he would be crucial to fighting al Queida.

The problem was that because of his role as commandant at the Guantanamo gulag, the Pakistanis did not want him there.

When Bush leaves office, I think that there will be a slew of senior officers who will be told to retire because of their involvement in torture. They are simply too toxic to remain militarily useful.

Hood is just the tip of the iceberg.