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POPS More Bush secret torture memos The revelations show that the White House ignored critics of its policy and encouraged appointments of cooperative counsels at the Justice Department who could be relied on to stretch the law to give the president authority to ignore the Geneva Convention's ban on torture. There was opposition from both the State Department and the Justice Department. The State Department lawyer, William Taft IV, expressed alarm at the criminality of the practice of torture and the Bush administration's attempt to justify it. In a lengthy legal opinion, which he sent to the Justice Department on January 11, 2002, and to the White House, he reportedly warned that disregarding the Geneva Conventions was "untenable". He urged them to warn Bush that he would "be seen as a war criminal by the rest of the world".
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POPSCongress Caves In to Bush....Again President Bush mounted his surge this past summer (2007) and had the talking heads tell congress and the people of the United States this fall (2007) that it (the surge) was working and that our troops are making progress in lessening the violence in some parts of Iraq. However, newscasters who have been in country for nearly five years now tell a different tale. These newscasters say that the people in some segregated communities who adhere to strict regulations about when to come and go are somewhat safer because we keep troops surrounding those neighborhoods night and day, but this is not freedom. This is strict occupation!
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POPS The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness The soldiers, sailors and marines emphasized that not all troops took part in indiscriminate killings. Many said that these acts were perpetrated by a minority. But they nevertheless described such acts as common and said they often go unreported--and almost always go unpunished Court cases, such as the ones surrounding the massacre in Haditha and the rape and murder of a 14-year-old in Mahmudiya, and news stories in the Washington Post, Time, the London Independent and elsewhere based on Iraqi accounts have begun to hint at the wide extent of the attacks on civilians. Human rights groups have issued reports, such as Human Rights Watch's Hearts and Minds: Post-war Civilian Deaths in Baghdad Caused by U.S. Forces, packed with detailed incidents that suggest that the killing of Iraqi civilians by occupation forces is more common than has been acknowledged by military authorities.
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