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- t r u t h o u t | US General Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes
  Posted by okami from Truth Out
  Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (now retired) served as the deputy commanding general for support for the Third Army for ten months in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq occupation. In a statement released today, he bluntly accuses the Bush administration of war crimes and lays down a challenge for prosecution.
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- Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights - Editorial - NYTimes.com
  Posted by okami from New York Times
  In the waning months of his tenure, President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president's powers to spy on Americans without a court order.
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- Right Web | Pentagon Reined in Cheney's Plans for Iran Strikes
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  Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W. Bush administration official.
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- Institute for Policy Studies: Iraq War Entering Year Six: Multiple Crises Rising in Middle East
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  Gaza is under murderous assault and the United States is escalating regional threats while pushing new sanctions against Iran.
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- National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
  Posted by okami from GovExec
  America's national security institutions have failed and the military has been left holding the bag in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, conducting nation-building tasks for which it is ill-suited, according to the final report of a House Armed Services Committee panel established in 2007 to examine military roles and missions.
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- Rapid Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?
  Posted by okami from Blogs.abcnews
  ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention.  This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.
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- Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution
  Posted by okami
  More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system really is the total flop it has seemed to be so far.
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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