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[Shoah] GEORGE W. BUSH I WANT YOU TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES | Shoah: Security Council and secure a congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq.  The growing body of evidence, including testimony from British officials in the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry, indicates that Bush officials could be charged with criminal offenses against the United States and violations of international law for making false claims to national self-defense.

[War in Context] What would George Orwell say about the US withdrawal from Iraq ...: In 2009, the website of Operation Iraqi Freedom proudly advertised that the governor of Anbar was named FDI magazine’s “Global Personality of the Year.” What the website does not advertise is that the huge oil and natural gas companies competing for Anbar’s natural resource wealth have little interest in helping the people of Anbar, but are instead focused on their bottom lines. That entails plans for using cheap foreign labor from China and other countries.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Iraq snapshot: During this month of peace and renewal, I wish the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world Ramadan Kareem.                           

[Change.org's Human Rights Blog: War and Peace] Iraq: One Person's Liberation Might Be Another's Nightmare | Human ...: Perhaps the two most important points that Otterman, Hil, Wilson and many of those Iraqis they interviewed make are these. First, waging even a defensive or humanitarian war, countries and armed forces are choosing ahead of time to kill, injure, and distress civilians caught in the crossfire.

[truthout] t r u t h o u t | Rushed by Bush, Troops Sent to War Without Training: James Dubik, whether the soldiers' preparation for Iraq was adequate without going to the National Training Center, according to a Fort Lewis spokesman, Lt. Col.

[Veterans Today] Iraq Veterans Against the War Calls for Prosecution of Bush ...: IVAW further alleges that the Bush administration’s alterations to Iraqi laws were made for the intended benefit of U.S. multinational corporations and are illegal under international law.  Efforts to pressure Iraqi officials to open up the country’s oil industry to foreign investment exacerbated the insurgency and undermined the U.S. military’s ostensible mission there.

[Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran - Working for International Dialogue and Peace] Is Iran, like Iraq, 'Asking for War'? | Campaign Against Sanctions ...: I'm reminded of this by the recent news report about Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector who led a doomed hunt for WMD in Iraq. Last week, he told the British inquiry into the March 2003 invasion that those who were "100 percent certain there were weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq turned out to have "less than zero percent knowledge" of where the purported hidden caches might be.”

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Which side are you on?: (We will certainly have troops in Iraq ten years after George Bush decided that he couldn’t wait any longer to invade.) History provides examples of both kinds of costs—of being too slow, and being too hasty. But because the main example of the cost of inaction—the rise of Hitler—is so horrific, it tends to blot out distinctions and make restraint reek of Chamberlain, rather than, say, Eisenhower.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Giving Obama credit, however, for "saving" the nation from another Great Depression, for the health care reforms (that most Americans didn't want and we don't know the result of) and protecting consumers from greed while credit continues to be impossible to get even with our own money that the Fed gave them, is premature if not absurd. Obama has not demonstrated the ability to solve our problems, only to revive the ideas of the Roosevelt era, that remain very controversial today..

[RBO] The DSA-Affiliated Congressional Socialist Caucus Re-Discovered « RBO: The DSAPAC letter criticized Lieberman’s dismissal of Lamont supporters as “blog-inspired fringe voters,” citing “Senator Lieberman’s neo-liberal, balance-the-budget domestic policies and his hawkish views on defense and foreign policy as out of touch with the Democratic base.”

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