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Category: War

The news items published under this category 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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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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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.
302 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Vets of Bush's Wars Sue the VA: 'More than Half of Wounded Troops Slipping Through the Cracks'' (6567 bytes more)

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.
>>> Read full article: 'How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?' (15997 bytes more)	282 Reads

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.
269 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Iraq's Three Civil Wars' (23766 bytes more)

War: Intel Analyst: Don't Bother with U.S. Media If You Want to Know About Iraq
Posted by: IT
In this stunning book excerpt, the author explains that he virtually ignored U.S. media coverage when collecting information on Iraq. By Alex Rossmiller \| Presidio Press February 22, 2008 My new book, Still Broken, recounts my time working as an intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, from the halls of the Pentagon to the palaces of Baghdad.
>>> Read full article: 'Intel Analyst: Don't Bother with U.S. Media If You Want to Know About Iraq' (11060 bytes more)	304 Reads

War: Iraq: They Call This Stability?
Posted by: IT
	Life in Iraq, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to normal. But the truth is a very different story. By Patrick Cockburn \| The Independent UK February 15, 2008 People in Baghdad are not passive victims of violence, but seek desperately to avoid their fate. In April 2004, I was almost killed by Shia militiamen of the Mehdi Army at a checkpoint at Kufa in southern Iraq.
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War: Intel Report Reveals Bush and Cheney's Iran Warnings as Fraudulent
Posted by: IT
A new intelligence assessment that Iran's nuclear weapons program halted in 2003 utterly contradicts the dire claims made by the war-mongering White House. By Ray McGovern \| Consortium News December 4, 2007 For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued and its Key Judgments were made public.
>>> Read full article: 'Intel Report Reveals Bush and Cheney's Iran Warnings as Fraudulent' (4224 bytes more)	254 Reads

War: Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
Posted by: IT
	Truth is a casualty when governments and generals cherry-pick figures to support a partisan purpose. By James Denselow \| Comment Is Free November 29, 2007 There is a deep irony that a US administration so loath to use statistics to gauge the success or failure of post-war Iraq is now "cooking the books" at will.
286 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics' (5917 bytes more)

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