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[indybay sf newswire] For the people of Iraq the terror of 160,000 U.S. soldiers occupying their country the war is an everyday reality. Thousands of people who had come to the Union Square commercial district the day after thanksgiving the Iraq war was brought back to their attention by dramatic street theater acted out by IVAW members and many supporters who acted as people arbitrarily detained and arrested and tortured.

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[RINF Alternative News Media: Daily Breaking News] The Legal Advice to Wage War on Iraq was not just “sexed-up”, it ...: Further, the then Chief of the British Armed Forces, Sir Michael Boyce, asked on 13 March 2003 for assurances from the Government that the proposed invasion was legal and that his forces would not be committing a war crime by invading Iraq. That was why the Goldsmith 7 March 2003 written legal advice (which itself represented Goldsmith’s first change of mind), with all its caveats, had to be so drastically changed (with a little help from Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan who had an unminuted meeting with Goldsmith at 10 Downing Street on 14 March 2003, at which the latter conveyed his “verbal view”) to the infamous 17 March 2003 Parliamentary Answer on a single sheet of A4, devoid of all previous caveats, purporting as it did at the time to be the definitive legal advice, when it was no such thing.

[AfterDowningStreet.org - Convict Bush and Cheney!] Obama Can End Iraq War 'Responsibly' | AfterDowningStreet.org: What frustrates me the most is that the majority, including those who are opposed to Bush, can't accept the truth. Whenever someone such as Peter Dyer tells it like it is by calling the war a crime, people consider it a hyperbole, similar to saying that eating a rich chocolate mousse cake is a sin.

[Comments for Dandelion Salad] US Army deserter seeks asylum in Germany over Iraq « Dandelion Salad: When the traumatized man redeploying, the fresh young private nervous about his first deployment, or the wounded soldier in Landstuhl could simply leave the base, apply for asylum and refuse to be a part of a f-cked up war (and everyone knows they can do it) this would mean the Army can no longer twist soldiers’

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] How Did Israel Manipulate the US Into Attacking Iraq And Declaring ...: We have been told who did 911, the worst domestic attack on U.S. soil, and also blocked from doing any reasonable investigation to find the true culprits from the available evidence. We have been told that there is proof but after more than 4 years none have been shown to the American public.

[AlterNet.org: PEEK] Maddow: Why Won't Obama Pursue War Crimes Investigations? | War on ...: On last night's Rachel Maddow show, Maddow engaged Slate's Dahlia Lithwick in a discussion on how Barack Obama might tend to some of the more morally troubling aspects of the outgoing Bush administration -- issues like torture and detention and rendition. Initially, Lithwick says, she was optimistic that an Obama administration would follow through on promises to close Gitmo and bring a halt to the practice of torture.

[WORLD Magazine | Community] WORLD Magazine | Community | Blog Archive | Homesteaders needed: One of the lasting lessons of the Iraq War is that the United States did not put enough boots on the ground when it should have. It built concrete walls around Baghdad’s palaces and the Green Zone, sandbagged checkpoints at the airbases and government offices when it also should have been paying attention to the neighborhoods, the schools, the mosques, and the churches.

[American Everyman] Prosecute Bush No Matter What the Cost « American Everyman: 9-11 WAS A LIE, THE IRAQI WAR IS A LIE, THE AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IS A LIE, THE CONFLICT IN GEORGIA WAS NOT, REPEAT NOT STARTED BY THE SOVIETS. THAT CONFLICT WAS BEGUN BY THE PUPPET GOVERNMENT COMMANDED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

[AlterNet.org: Carol Marsh] Maddow: Why Won't Obama Pursue War Crimes Investigations? | War on ...: On last night's Rachel Maddow show, Maddow engaged Slate's Dahlia Lithwick in a discussion on how Barack Obama might tend to some of the more morally troubling aspects of the outgoing Bush administration -- issues like torture and detention and rendition. Initially, Lithwick says, she was optimistic that an Obama administration would follow through on promises to close Gitmo and bring a halt to the practice of torture.

[Full Comment] Jeet Heer on the Bush legacy: The most damaging president since ...: Secondly, the brunt of the war has been borne by the Iraqi people, who have been tortured, displaced and killed in countless numbers. Finally, the recent lessening of violence in Iraq has been purchased at a high price: in order to secure calm the United States has been arming local militias from all the major ethnic groups.

[World War 4 Report blogs] "Humanitarian" interventionist Samantha Power back on Obama team ...: Although critics of withdrawal do a masterful job of painting a grim picture of the apocalypse that awaits, they offer no account of how US forces in Iraq will do more than preserve a status quo that is already deteriorating into wholesale ethnic cleansing....What is needed to stave off even greater carnage than we see today is neither assuming massacres won't happen nor suspending thought until the surge has demonstrably failed in six months ”” at which point other options may no longer be viable.

[The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog] The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: The Iraq War ...: It's a quibble, and has little to do with the original post, but I would posit that the invasion of Iraq is much more akin to the enactment of Partition -- an act of political regime change conducted with little regard to potential consequences, perpetrated by bureaucrats with little interest in or understanding of the complex social and cultural webs they were tearing asunder -- than with the Indian independence movement itself. You are right that the removal of Saddam didn't kill those people, just as the exit of the British from India didn't kill those people;

[NION - Front Page] NION:: Help APA Anti-Torture Candidate Win Election: Psychologists in particular had been associated with abusive interrogations as part of Behavioral Science Consultation Teams (BSCTs) at Guantanamo and in Iraq. Psychologists were associated with similar actions with Special Forces in .

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