Author: James Landrith

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VA Budget Cuts

Win Without War has released the list of those Members of Congress who voted to cut $25 billion from the VA budget, the day after the House voted to "support the troops and the...

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Patriotism

R. Lee Wrights, editor of Liberty For All on What's Wrong With Patriotism?: For too many people the answer to the question, "What is wrong with patriotism," is simple and easy. They will merely...

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Justice Screwing Us Again

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is calling for signatures for a petition to be sent to the Office of Management and Budget regarding the Justice Department, once again attempting to muck things up: We...

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Humanitarian Pledge

The Education for Peace in Iraq Center has A Citizens’ Humanitarian Pledge regarding the reconstruction effort. You know, that time that the Adminstration has set aside for political paybacks, special favors and fabulously large...

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Claire Calls It

Claire Wolfe makes much the same point in this post that I made previously in another post: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LISTS 111 COUNTRIES WHOSE POLICE OR "SECURITY FORCES" COMMIT TORTURE OR OTHERWISE ABUSE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS,...

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Ugly, Ugly, Ugly

As Oliver Willis, Jim Henley and Arthur Silber have already commented: This is some pretty hateful and ugly shit. I am disgusted and at the same time thankful that most pro-war advocates don't share...

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Bush I on Saddam

Interesting Quote: "We should not march into Baghdad . . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a...

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Riot Control Agents

Interesting development from The Independent: …the Pentagon confirmed it was authorising use of "non-lethal" gases of the type used in last October's disastrous Moscow theatre siege – a move that has already provoked accusations...

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Syria is Next on War Tour

From CNN Breaking News E-mail Alerts: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns Syria that the U.S. considers military shipments to Iraq a 'hostile act.' Hmmm, Russia was also involved, but I'd chance that if...