Just read the declaration that was released by the White House yesterday. Another way to bypass Congressional approval by refusing to call this a treaty. Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the administration's deputy national security adviser for Iraq … [Read more...]
Veterans Day is for veterans
I really don't get this: More than a dozen members of an antiwar veterans group were arrested yesterday as they protested the exclusion of their message from Boston's Veterans Day parade.Members of Veterans for Peace lined … [Read more...]
Steel Iraqi Soldier: A Gulf War Vet’s Take on Veterans Day
The Story Behind the Sculptureby Marcus EriksenVeterans Day seems pointless, just a bunch of old vets telling war stories. There is no Hallmark set of instructions to hint at a gift you might submit to your favorite war hero. … [Read more...]
Edwards in NH: “The poison fruit of corruption”
Edwards delivered his new remarks in an old fashioned New England Town Hall packed with at least 400 people maybe more and another 60 or so kids from nearby Phillips Exeter Academy sat upstairs in the balcony. We were all in a happy mood … [Read more...]
Of Kurds and Casinos: Sovereign Is as Sovereign Does
"Sovereignty" is essentially an attempt to place a modern legal framework around the time-honored principle that s/he who can inflict the most force on a region, gets to call the shots on that region. Though we can debate whether Mao … [Read more...]
International Law and Iran
In my blog today I stated that Iran is a sovereign country and any attack upon it would be a violation of International Law according to the Charter of the United NationsThe Bush administration wants a dialogue to begin about attacking … [Read more...]
Warmongering about Iran, Cowboys and Blackwater, Military Commissions Act
In my blog today, Ed O'Reilly Blog, I discuss the decision by Secretary of State Rice, to implement simple "rules" rather than "rules of law" relative to private security agencies operating in Iraq, the Military Commissions Act if … [Read more...]
Bill Richardson: “It’s Time to Make a Choice in Iraq”
This is cross posted at The Huffington Post and posted here for your convenience in case you missed it yesterday.Truly ending the war in Iraq will only come about when our troops are no longer targets. That is why Governor Bill Richardson … [Read more...]
Sen. Obama on the Web and in the Union Leader
Sen. Barack Obama: Five years after Iraq war vote, we're still foolishly rattling our sabersBy SEN. BARACK OBAMAPosted at http://www.unionlead...ON THE FIFTH anniversary of the Senate's vote to authorize an open-ended war in Iraq, we should … [Read more...]
COMMENTARY: Grading the candidates – the MA-05 debate part one: Iraq
Braude (to Tsongas)-"Like most Democrats who ran for Congress in '06, you're running on a pledge to push for speedy withdrawl of troops from Iraq, but in an NECN-NBC debate last week at Dartmouth, the three leading presidential candidates … [Read more...]
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