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iraq is a stable and democratic country

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Submitted by antarchi on December 22, 2007 - 17:25.
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... and other idiotic sayings.

'You can look back at this time and you can be very, very proud of what you have done',

Tony Bliar, flying into Basra to tell the troops they can be proud. (Dec. 2005)

'It's not that they're welcoming us because they're welcoming foreign troops, They're welcoming the fact of their liberation.'

Tony Bliar in April 2003

And what do the Iraqis say?

so far gone

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Submitted by antarchi on October 24, 2007 - 00:43.
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A horrible, shocking documentary:
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
How on earth can we pull back from where we are, and how did we manage to get so far. By turning away, compartmentalising what is happening, by allocating it to 'politics' or 'war' or something else towards which we can look or not look and for which we bear no share of blame - by doing all of that we let it happen, on and on, worse and worse, and more and more impossible to halt.

children are no longer children

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Submitted by antarchi on May 27, 2008 - 14:29.
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Under the Geneva Conventions signed and adopted by the US... children under the age of 15 are classed as "protected persons," and even if captured while fighting against US forces are to be considered victims, not POWs. In 2002, the Bush administration signed an updated version of that treaty, raising the "protected person" age to all those "under 18."

if you want them tortured...

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Submitted by antarchi on November 17, 2007 - 01:53.
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President Bush was asked why people were transferred out of U.S. custody to countries where torture is common... [He] was then asked specifically about returns to Uzbekistan, a country with a notorious record on torture: “As commander in chief, what is it that Uzbekistan can do in interrogating an individual that the United States can’t?” His response was: “We seek assurances that nobody will be tortured.”

Others spelled things out more clearly. One U.S. diplomat was quoted as saying: “It allows us to get information from terrorists in a way we can’t do on U.S. soil.”

we were right

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Submitted by antarchi on July 29, 2007 - 05:05.
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IRAQ

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Submitted by antarchi on July 13, 2007 - 01:59.
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To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. ... Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced.

From the Nuremberg Charter, 1945

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Some facts, figures, quotes to make the stomach churn and the blood boil...

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