Is Bush correct when he reassures his war fans that torture is not indicative of American values? Or is the US government merely treating Iraqis the same way it treated Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, and Gordon...
Some 60 former U.S. diplomats and other government officials who served overseas have signed a letter to President George W Bush protesting his support for the Israeli government's position in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The letter was inspired by a similar...
George W. Bush and his media minions told us that we must battle "the terrorists" in Baghdad and Najaf so we won't have to fight them in New York and Baltimore. But should the news that the Iraq war has been transformed into something resembling a gay S&M movie...
Further embarrassment regarding torture at the US military prison at Abu Ghraib, Iraq emerged today, as high-level US civilian officials denied knowledge of torture in Iraq. US officials have stuck to the story that they had no prior knowledge of the torture going on...
HEARING ARTICLE 15-6 INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION TABLE OF CONTENTS References .......................... 3 Background ......................... 6 Assessment of DoD Counter-Terrorism Interrogation and Detention...
QUESTION: Mr. President, thank you for giving us this chance here in Al Arabiya. Regarding the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners, six U.S. soldiers are being reprimanded. Do you think that's enough? BUSH: First, I want to tell the people of the Middle East that the...
Americans of a certain age may remember the murder of students on the Kent State University campus 34 years ago and the anger it once aroused. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler,...
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You didn't have to be Nostradamus to predict the Iraq war would come to this. Heck, even I was able to predict it clearly. In a column for Antiwar.com as the Iraqi invasion began (March 2003), I wrote the following: "I'm not afraid of our troops conquering in Iraq....
When in 1970 Life magazine published photos taken by Senator Tom Harkin, then a lowly congressional aide, of the infamous "tiger cages" in which suspected Viet Cong men, women and even children were kept secretly – and crippled – by the U.S.-run South...
