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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Statement In Opposition To The Use of the Military Commissions
COALITION STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO THE USE OF THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Statement In Opposition To The Use of the Military Commissions Authorized by President Bush...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
No Dancing Here
Although some warbloggers would have the world believe that the citizens of Iraq are dancing in the streets and that life is just one big festive circus, these pictures destroy that facade.