09.11.07 - 09:55am
Petraeus went to Washington and told Congress that the surge had produced a minimal gain in security but that by next summer he would be able to withdraw 30,000 troops. I am sure the notion that the US military is to withdraw 30,000 troops is going to play well with an American public exasperated and exhausted by the war, but if that withdrawal is just enough to get the troop commitment back to what it was before the escalation then how much of a withdrawal is it? Hopefully the US public will not be bamboozled quite so easily as British hacks.
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09.08.07 - 11:20am
In many ways, international law and the international environment has not yet progressed much beyond the law of the jungle. However, as the examples of Pinochet and Kissinger demonstrate, once you are no longer the 900 pound gorilla in your own little jungle clearing you might one day find yourself in danger.
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09.06.07 - 09:40am
Nothing epitomises the disaster that is the invasion of Iraq more than the fact that, four years on, the US is not only still bombing the country daily but actually bombing densely populated urban Baghdad neighbourhoods.
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08.23.07 - 08:53am
For a man who has spent his entire presidency asserting that black is white and up is down while everything around him turns to disaster, no misrepresentation or twisting of the facts is a fabrication too far. And yesterday, George W Bush finally went for broke. After spending years denying, avoiding and scoffing at any comparison between Iraq and Vietnam, he stood up in front of American war veterans, with that smirk on his face, and fully embraced it.
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08.10.07 - 10:08am
The common thread, running through Malaya, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq is clear. The very people whose hearts and minds the west claims to be trying to win are the ones who are on the receiving end of its enormous destructive military power. And thus the bankruptcy of such claims are revealed. How can you win the support of people whose family and friends you are killing?
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08.01.07 - 06:33pm
Perhaps the single most damning indictment I have so far read of the murderous disaster that is “the coalition” occupation of Iraq, from the latest TomDispatch
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07.18.07 - 09:23am
Respect MP George Galloway faces being suspended from the House of Commons as the establishment continues its campaign against the antiwar campaigner. The ludicrous “standards and privileges” committee has recommended Galloway be suspended for 18 days over claims that a charity he founded to help an Iraqi child suffering from leukemia received money from Saddam Hussein’s government via a complicated “kick-back” scheme.
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