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      Criminal Investigations Still Needed for Architects of US Invasion of Iraq

      Repealing the AUMF recognizes the error of the Iraq War that began in 2003, but to acknowledge its true nature, we must go further.

      Dennis Fritz
      Matthew Hoh
      Lawrence Wilkerson
      Coleen Rowley
      Karen Kwiatkowski
      Apr 12, 2023

      The U.S. Senate repealing the 2002 Authorization for Military Force in Iraq was necessary and just. Still, that action should be viewed only as a first step in a national process of reckoning with and accounting for the consequences of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.

      Often identified as the worst foreign policy decision in United States history, the Iraq War was catastrophic for millions of Americans and Iraqis and cataclysmic for Iraqi society, regional stability and international law. The invasion and occupation are correctly acknowledged as a crime: a war commissioned on lies and a violation of the Nuremberg Principles. As men and women in military or federal government service at the time of the invasion, we’re compelled to remind others of the devastation this war has wrought to ensure that the US does not re-commit this sin.

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      Bush War Crimes, Guantanamo in Spotlight at Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings

      "Representing Guantánamo detainees was entirely about the limits of executive power, not exoneration of terrorists. It's work she should be applauded for, unless you're, you know, anti-democracy."

      Brett Wilkins
      Mar 22, 2022

      U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday deflected attacks from Republican senators who questioned her work as a defense attorney for Guantanamo Bay detainees, as well as a false allegation that she called former Bush administration officials "war criminals."

      "It's horrific to see Sen. Graham create twisted knots of logic to justify indefinite detention without due process."

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      War, Torture, and Mass Death: On the US Refusal to Apologize for Its Post-9/11 Carnage

      No accountability. No apologies. It's the American way.

      Karen Greenberg
      Oct 07, 2021

      The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was marked by days of remembrances -- for the courageous rescue workers of that moment, for the thousands murdered as the Twin Towers collapsed, for those who died in the Pentagon, or in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, fighting off the hijackers of the commercial jet they were in, as well as for those who fought in the forever wars that were America's response to those al-Qaeda attacks.

      For some, the memory of that horrific day included headshaking over the mistakes this country made in responding to it, mistakes we live with to this moment.

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