Annan criticized the U.S. decision to attack Iraq without authorization from the U.N. Security Council...

http://cbs4boston.com/massachusetts/MA--Harvard-Annan-gn/resources_news_html


From Information Clearing House

Without legal sanction, British troops will continue to torture and kill Iraqi civilians with impunity...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1235232,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The bad-apple theory can't explain a scandal of such magnitude. The rights group suggests a more plausible reason: After 9/11, the military's long commitment to the Geneva Conventions eroded under an aggressive Bush-administration plan to deal with terrorists.

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040610/6274434s.htm


From Information Clearing House

Two firms sued

After securing a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution supposedly granting "full sovereignty" to Iraqis, the United States is shifting its focus to winning a second decision that would protect its troops from possible war-crimes prosecution.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FF11Aa01.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/061104J.shtml


Informant: Walter Lippmann

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3796075.stm


Informant: aaron

Iraqis are denied the right to manage their own affairs. Democracy and human rights have been denied to Iraqis, not because Iraqis do not like democracy and human rights, but because the U.S. feared democracy. The U.S. considered sovereignty as the duty of the U.S. to take possession by conquest...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6290.htm

Links to the United States run deep among many in the interim Iraqi government, even as the diverse, 33-member body gears up to assert its independence from the U.S. government...

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=523878.html


From Information Clearing House

06/07/04

by Lance Broughton

Yellow Times

We all know what's going to happen in Iraq. The invaders will eventually discover that saving the world for democracy doesn't work in the Middle East. They've never had our sort of democracy because it doesn't work with the various religious factions jostling for power. Like it or lump it, Muslims aren't going to lie down and play dead just to suit political upstarts who consider themselves superior. The Middle East and its oil belong to the Arabs, not the United States and her few allies. The almighty dollar no longer rules supreme. Now we're told that a massive terrorist attack will hit the American mainland shortly. Simply put, the threat of attack is a long established way of frightening the public into subjugation. If you don't back us, the bogeyman will get you. Twin Bang!

http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1971


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

George W. Bush demonizes his enemies. He thinks in terms of an "axis of evil" and "Armageddon," an apocalyptic, faith-based "end of times" scenario and some would say that kind of delusionary thinking is pathological. He labels everyone who he perceives as the enemy, i.e. the Taliban and Osama bin Laden "evil" and they are thusly considered something less than human and because they are his demons, he can use that justification to order the "CRUSADE" against them, and there no remorse about the wholesale slaughter of anyone who gets in the way of our bombs. The so-called "war on terrorism" and the pre-war sanctions against Iraq cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and American lives wasted fighting his wars of aggressive. There is no remorse, no apologies for the barbaric murder of entire families attending a wedding party in Afghanistan (and other mistakes) and calling them the enemy. We are not safer. His killing hasn't eliminated terrorism but it has created of many times more terrorists.

http://pnews.org/portal/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=12

see further under:

Arms are for Hugging
http://pnews.org/art/5art/armsHUGGING.shtml


Informant: Aristotle