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Topic: War

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

War: Sanctifying War
Posted by: IT
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies. By SHELDON RICHMAN \| CP June 4 - 6, 2010 We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They don’t seem to use it as America’s political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for America’s world domination.
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Accountability: US Violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq Commander Says
Posted by: IT
	A stunning admission from General David Petraeus reveals that the US may have violated international law. By John Byrne \| Raw Story May 30, 2009 The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush's onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.
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Crimes Against Humanity: Rumsfeld's Pentagon Published Bible Verses on Top-Secret Intel Reports
Posted by: IT
The cover sheets featured inspirational Bible verses printed over military images. By Ali Frick \| Think Progress May 18, 2009 In a lengthy article on Donald Rumsfeld’s rocky tenureas Defense Secretary, GQ published never-before-seen cover sheets from top-secret intelligence briefings produced by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.
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War: US plans for colonial warfare
Posted by: IT
	A FURIOUS debate has raged in the Pentagon over the future and mission of US military forces ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. by Eric S. Margolis \| Sun2Surf Sun, 19 Apr 2009 The Pentagon has been divided over whether the US military should be configured to fight conventional wars against Russia and China, or be transformed into an agile force to combat Third World guerillas?
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Foreign Policy: How Israel Used Deception to Justify Its Gaza Aggression
Posted by: IT
Israeli intelligence concluded after Camp David that Yassir Arafat was willing to follow the Oslo process -- but that's not what they told lawmakers. By Ira Chernus \| Foreign Policy in Focus January 14, 2009 All of the suffering in Gaza -- indeed, all of the suffering endured by Palestinians under Israeli occupation for the last eight years -- could have been avoided if Israel negotiated a peace agreement with Yasser Arafat when it had the chance, in 2001.
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Foreign Policy: The U.S. Military Index
Posted by: IT
	US force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight. Foreign Policy, March/April 2008 In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military.
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War: Paying for War at the Pump
Posted by: IT
Five years after we invaded Iraq, the American taxpayers who paid for this grand imperial adventure are rewarded with skyrocketing gas prices. By Robert Schee \| Truthdig May 21, 2008 What's it got to do with the price of gas? Would some reporter with access to the Republican presidential candidate please ask John McCain why he wants to continue President Bush's Mideast policy when it has proved so ruinous for American taxpayers?
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War: Vets of Bush's Wars Sue the VA: 'More than Half of Wounded Troops Slipping Through the Cracks'
Posted by: IT
	"If you're suicidal you can't wait a month ... People placed on waiting lists have killed themselves." By Aaron Glantz \| AlterNet April 22, 2008 A national class action lawsuit brought by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans went to trial on April 21.
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War: How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?
Posted by: IT
Presidents and prime ministers will lie their countries into war -- but why do We the People keep buying it? By David Michael Green \| AlterNet March 28, 2008 Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In a different galaxy.
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War: Iraq's Three Civil Wars
Posted by: IT
	There are three major conflicts in Iraq -- and the U.S. is virtually powerless to stop them. By Juan Cole \| MIT Center for International Studies March 6, 2008 All war situations are a little bit opaque, but from reading the Iraqi press in Arabic, I conclude that there are three major struggles for power of a political and violent sort.
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA