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POPSU.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem
The Taliban responded to Bush’s demand by asking him to furnish evidence of bin Laden’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Upon receipt of such evidence, they offered to turn him over to an independent tribunal instead of the United States. Bush never explained why the Taliban’s conditions were unreasonable. After all, as federal judges in the Jose Padilla case, the Zacarias Moussaoui case, and many others have confirmed, terrorism is a federal criminal offense. Thus, while it’s not unusual for one nation to seek the extradition of a foreigner to stand trial for a criminal offense, it’s just as reasonable for the nation receiving the request to be provided evidence that the person has, in fact, committed the crime. Venezuela is currently seeking the extradition from the United States of a man named Luis Posada Carriles, who is accused of bombing a Cuban airliner over Venezuelan skies, a terrorist act that succeeded in killing everyone on board. Venezuela and the United States hav
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POPS"Top 25 Five Censored News Stories" # # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid # # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs # # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror # # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
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POPSWhy Are We Still at War? "the reconception of America's correct role in the world as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war." "dismissing the concept of peacetime as a fatuous mirage."
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POPSAsk Israel to free high school conscientious objectors The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. Show your support by contacting the Israeli Minister of Defense using the form below. Israeli peace activists will hand-deliver your message on December 18th, the Shministim Day of Action. Click through for email to Israeli Defense Minister.
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POPSBushco wrote war pitch BEFORE knowing intel National Security Archive reports the Bush-Cheney White paper "justifying" the invasion was developed a full three months in advance of the intelligence data and analysis that should have served as the basis for that justification; then doctored NIE report to agree with their own White Paper. Only imminent threat mentioned was the possibility of Iraqi terrorism in USA if Saddam regime was threatened - but Bushco deleted it before giving the report to Congress.
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POPSWar and foreign policy [truly outstanding!] The best lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan are not about Bush failures, nor about a need to change the military, but rather about the nature of foreign policy; challenges the shibboleths of left and right. Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the US Army with the rank of colonel. This piece is adapted from his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.
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POPSGeorgia-Ossetia: Context!! Georgia has massacred Ossetians for centuries; Ossetians have sought Russian protection. And this one began with Georgians (now aligned with the West) slaughtering Ossetians - again! Wake up, Cold Warriors, this is not about Big Bad Russia picking on pure-as-the-driven-snow helpless neighbor. Every player has mixed motives.
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POPS"Dangerous and unstable" "The people that are pulling McCain's strings are the people who want to push us into a new Cold War with the Russians"
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POPSHersh: Cheney meeting discusses ways to provoke Iran to war "why don’t we build—we, in our shipyard—build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats, put Navy Seals on them with a lot of arms, and, the next time one of our boats goes through the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up" Who are the bad guys here?
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POPSAl Qaeda stronger since 9/11; war makes it worse War makes them heroes, Rand report says. United police action would make them criminals. Used to be that anybody who said war wasn't the best answer was thought to be soft on terrorism. What we need to learn is that war doesn't work.
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POPSProsecutor Bugliosi to Congress: Try Bush for murder Famed L.A. prosecutor details evidence showing Bush a) knew from CIA documents that Saddam was not an imminent threat before telling Congress that he was, b) purposely deleted CIA statements to that fact from public documents, c) thus took the nation to war under false pretenses, and d) should be charged with murder of 4,000 US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis. Amen. No one on earth should be permitted to send thousands to their deaths without just cause. He betrayed those troops that followed his orders and he conspired to murder tens of thousands of Iraqis. How can such dereliction of duty go unpunished?
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POPSWhy surge success is irrelevant "Arguments over whether U.S. forces can prevail in Iraq bypass a truth that no amount of media spin can change: The U.S. war effort in Iraq has always been illegitimate and fundamentally wrong."
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POPSHow the Surge has left us wounded "If we accept the mainstream narrative on its face, the surge worked. It transformed the U.S. troop presence from being counterproductive to being indispensable for maintaining stability. But can we continue with anything close to the current level of troops deployed over there?"
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