‘Advisory’ troops will still kill and die, says Tom Knapp
Leave it to the U.S. Department of “Defense” to continue fighting a war it’s already irretrievably lost. On Friday, the Pentagon “asked” online whistleblowing facilitator WikiLeaks to “do the right thing” by erasing all classified U.S. government documents from its servers and handing over any copies. I put the “asked” in scare quotes because although …
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Those who pressed Congress to take responsibility for its actions in 2002 in other words, to either unambiguously declare war upon Iraq or unambiguously decline to do so were, of course, handled badly. Congress didn’t declare war, roundly defeated a resolution declaring war, and in fact specifically declared in its “resolution authorizing the …
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