Pastor fights fine for pre-war Iraq trip
[miamiherald.com: Nation] The New Jersey pastor who defied government restrictions and traveled to Iraq in 2003 to protest the pending U.S.-led invasion wants a judge to declare the $6,700 fine he received as a result violates his constitutional rights. His lawyers are expected to ask a federal judge on Wednesday Feb.
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Pastor Fights Fine for Pre-War Iraq Trip
[The MethoBlog - Conversation from the Methodist World] (AP) ”” A New Jersey pastor who defied government restrictions and traveled to Iraq in 2003 to protest the pending U.S.-led invasion wants a judge to declare the fine he received unconstitutional.
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February 28, 2008
Pastor fights fine for pre-war Iraq trip
[miamiherald.com: Nation] The New Jersey pastor who defied government restrictions and traveled to Iraq in 2003 to protest the pending U.S.-led invasion wants a judge to declare the $6,700 fine he received as a result violates his constitutional rights. His lawyers are expected to ask a federal judge on Wednesday Feb.
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Pastor Fights Fine for Pre-War Iraq Trip
[The MethoBlog - Conversation from the Methodist World] (AP) ”” A New Jersey pastor who defied government restrictions and traveled to Iraq in 2003 to protest the pending U.S.-led invasion wants a judge to declare the fine he received unconstitutional.
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February 26, 2008
Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran
[Cybers Music] The new double album soundtrack contains 30 tracks in a collection called “Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran.” The 2-CD set is due to be released March 18th on Sire Records, part of the Warner Music family of labels. All proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
MoveOn, Liberals, and Edwards Unite to End Iraq War
[CNSNews.com Headlines] (CNSNews.com) - Liberal activist groups MoveOn.org, USAction, Americans United for Change, VoteVets, and the Service Employees International Union, along with former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, joined forces Monday to announce a $20-million public awareness and lobbying campaign to promote a perceived link between the war in Iraq and a weakening U.S. economy.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
February 23, 2008
Iraq War justification, Iraq War reasons, can we justify, Hillary ...
[Citizen Wells] military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. While other countires also had weapons of mass desctuction, Hussein is in a different category because he has used such weapons
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Posted at 03:32 PM
Interacting with a Misleading War
[Eruditio Formidonis] The opponent of the U.S. in the Persian Gulf war, Iraq is one of the few countries that has not extended an official message of sympathy and condolences to the U.S. after the September 11 attacks. In an open letter to other world governments, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein wrote: “Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer they will find the right solution and the right path.”
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Posted at 03:31 PM
February 21, 2008
Iraq the Place vs Iraq the Abstraction
[Kings of War] For all the television news coverage, Americans have the slimmest sense of what the war actually feels and looks like””crumbling deserts, blasted buildings, angry crowds, random firefights. The image of Iraq is flickering and formless.
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Turkey Readying Ground War Iraq PKK
[FreeMarketNews.com - World News/Editorials and Analysis] Party (PKK) in the coming spring, local Today's Zaman daily reported on Monday. The Turkish military was currently developing its strategy for the operation, which would most likely be launched in the middle of March, said the report.
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February 19, 2008
Iraq the place and Iraq the abstraction
[Global Dashboard] They wanted to know what it was like “over there.” I began to describe a Shiite doctor I’d gotten to know, who felt torn between gratitude and fear that occupation and chaos were making Iraq less Islamic. A burst of invective interrupted my sketch: none of it mattered””the only thing that mattered was this immoral, criminal war.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
McLeary in Iraq: “The Slow Dance”
[War Is Boring] Columbia Journalism Review reporter Paul McLeary was there when strongmen from two nations met in Iraq:. Diaz and Sheik Hussein are still feeling each other out, performing the slow dance that Arab culture .
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Posted at 03:02 PM
February 14, 2008
March 19 Iraq War blogswarm
[Politics in the Zeros] This blogswarm will promote blog postings opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a full withdrawal of foreign occupying forces in Iraq. Five years of an illegal and catastrophic war is five years too many.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
Obama And The Iraq War
[The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] By far the best piece I've read on Obama's views about the Iraq war - which will be one of the central issues in this election - is Michael Crowley's in TNR. Painstakingly putting together the full record, Crowley shows that Obama was .
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February 12, 2008
War News for Tuesday, February 12, 2008
[Iraq Today] The research, conducted by the agency's Office of Environmental Epidemiology, provides the first demographic look at suicides among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who left the military - a situation that veterans and mental health advocates worry might worsen as the wars drag on.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Murtha Proposes War Tax to Finance Iraq Conflict
[Keystone Politics - Pennsylvania's Trusted Source for Political News and Analysis Since 2004] Murtha was a Marine officer during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star and two Purple Heart medals. Murtha, in his 34th year in Congress, is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
February 09, 2008
John McCain’s Real Record - Just More War
[Mike's Place] Senator McCain said that a policy of containing Iraq to blunt its weapons of mass destruction program is “unsustainable, ineffective, unworkable and dangerous.” McCain: “I believe Iraq is a threat of the first order, and only a change of regime will make Iraq a state that does not threaten us and others, and where liberated people assume the rights and responsibilities of freedom.”
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Posted at 03:32 PM
Is the Iraq War Worsening the Recession?
[Your Black Money] Getting out of Iraq was tops in the list of remedies for economic problems, along with spending more on domestic programs and cutting tax rates. The most recent Congressional idea of giving rebates to the poor in hopes that they spend the money was at the bottom of the list.
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February 07, 2008
United Nations; February 5th 2003, A Day of Shame
[DhafirTrial] At the end of the Iran-Iraq war Saddam Hussein had, of course, turned his attention to Kuwait’s slant drilling under the border, siphoning off oil from Iraq’s Rumaila oil field, the Kuwaiti settlements within Iraq in the border region effectively expanding Kuwait’s territory and the alleged Kuwaiti destabilising of the Iraqi Dinar. After eight years of war Iraq was impossibly indebted.
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Video: "Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media"
[Vanderbilt University Podcasts] Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box presents Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, discussing "Is the military using women as weapons of war?"
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February 05, 2008
Kelly Oliver's "Women as Weapons of War"
[The Page 99 Test] The real tragedy [of 9/11/2001] was compounded by media hysteria that included the infamous CNN advisory for New Yorkers to use plastic and duct-tape to seal themselves inside their apartments to prevent the effects of chemical weapons. In addition to the real horror of the attacks of September 11th, was the imagined horror of media speculations on what could happen if terrorists attacked nuclear power plants, or released bio-pathogens into drinking water, or detonated chemical weapons in subways.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
[Media Mouse: Book Reviews] The media response to Abu Ghraib was instructive in that it tended to demonize the women involved in the torture of prisoners. In a Time magazine story on this issue, one headline read "New reports of detainee abuse at Gitmo suggest interrogators used female sexuality as a weapon." This was in reference to some of the female prison guards dressing up in sexualized clothing to "tempt" the prisoners, but when male prison guards stacked men up naked why did that not elicit gendered and sexualized reporting?
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