Independence Day and Freedom
what happens to people who are openly critical of the president and this administration
Billionaires for Bush
The icing on the cake — we can now use the debt and deficit to justify slashing spending on social security, health care and all those other terrible New Deal programs that put people before corporations – Billionaires for Bush! Government of, by, and for the corporations.
War Crimes
War Crimes Act of 1996 – conduct defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions relating to the laws of warfare signed at Geneva 12 August 1949 or any protocol to any such convention, to which the United States is a party
Handover?
Sovereignty – supreme power esp. over a body politic, freedom from external control, autonomous state. While the United States and its military partners retain control over security, difficult questions will persist as to whether Iraq’s restored sovereignty can be called complete.
Paying the Price
Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since the war began: 5,134
Laws in the Making
It is a creeping, soft totalitarianism. Not American, not patriotic at all. Yes, it can happen again. Yes, it is happening here.