Pre-empt preventive war
The Nation
by staff
10/11/07
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Congress’s vote to authorize the overthrow of the government of Iraq by military force. The consequences of that vote have been disastrous. More than 3,800 US soldiers and 70,000 Iraqi civilians have paid with their lives. If Congress passes Bush’s recent request for additional war funding, which appears likely, the cost of the war will exceed $600 billion. These are among the more measurable tolls of the Iraq War, and they are immense and unforgivable. When Congress approved the Authorization of Use of Military Force Against Iraq, however, it did more than permit an illegal and unjustified attack on Iraq; it enshrined the Bush doctrine of ‘preventive war’ and intensified a potentially unending ‘war on terror’...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071029/editors
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventive+war
by staff
10/11/07
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Congress’s vote to authorize the overthrow of the government of Iraq by military force. The consequences of that vote have been disastrous. More than 3,800 US soldiers and 70,000 Iraqi civilians have paid with their lives. If Congress passes Bush’s recent request for additional war funding, which appears likely, the cost of the war will exceed $600 billion. These are among the more measurable tolls of the Iraq War, and they are immense and unforgivable. When Congress approved the Authorization of Use of Military Force Against Iraq, however, it did more than permit an illegal and unjustified attack on Iraq; it enshrined the Bush doctrine of ‘preventive war’ and intensified a potentially unending ‘war on terror’...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071029/editors
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventive+war
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