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17/10/2004; 9:46:41 |
| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
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'This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our -- or some other nation's -- hit list.' -U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003 |
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'It was bad enough for the U.S. to have endured the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11; it's another thing to know that 18 months, billions of dollars and untold numbers of bombs later that Osama bin Laden and most of his top advisers remain on the loose. This failure ought to be thrown daily in Mr. Bush's face, but he has diverted attention to Iraq, where the United States is about to make a mistake of historic proportions.' -Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail, 18 Feb 2003 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britons, angered over Iraq, have handed Prime Minister Tony Blair a drubbing in local government elections but the prime minister won a little respite on Friday as his Labor Party retained the London mayoralty. [Reuters: World] . .< 9:11:37 PM  >Seymor Hersch on Abu Ghraib: "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run." Brad DeLong posted an email message he received from someone who saw Seymor Hersch speak at the University of Chicago a couple of nights ago.
[Hersch] said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run."
. .< 9:05:26 PM >Legalizing Torture-Washington Post Editorial There is no justification, legal or moral, for the judgments made by Mr. Bush's political appointees at the Justice and Defense departments. Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of dictatorships around the world that sanction torture on grounds of "national security." For decades the U.S. government has waged diplomatic campaigns against such outlaw governments -- from the military juntas in Argentina and Chile to the current autocracies in Islamic countries such as Algeria and Uzbekistan -- that claim torture is justified when used to combat terrorism. The news that serving U.S. officials have officially endorsed principles once advanced by Augusto Pinochet brings shame on American democracy -- even if it is true, as the administration maintains, that its theories have not been put into practice. Even on paper, the administration's reasoning will provide a ready excuse for dictators, especially those allied with the Bush administration, to go on torturing and killing detainees. . .< 10:54:16 AM >Kurds Find U.S. Alliance Is Built on Shifting Sands Washington's ties with the Kurds have reached a bitter new phase, with some Kurdish leaders charging that they have been betrayed. [New York Times: International] . .< 10:53:58 AM >'Good news on terror' turns bad US: State department admits a rise in the number of terrorist attacks. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The US state department today retracted a report that claimed terrorist attacks were on the decline, after it turned out they had actually increased.
The Bush administration hailed the initial annual assessment as proof of the success of the war on terror when it was published in April, but officials have now been forced to concede the revised figures for 2003 will show a sharp upturn in the number of attacks.' . .< 10:49:59 AM >Iraq jail dog scare 'was policy' US military dog handlers at a Baghdad jail were ordered to use their animals to scare detainees, reports say. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] |
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