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War Powers, War Lies: Part 9: Away Games

Posted on October 28, 2005, 11:38 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

In the global war on terror or, as the Bush Administration likes to call it, the GWOT, the U.S. aspires to the situation of a National League team in interleague play — relaxed rules. This time we consider three aspects of the relaxed GWOT away game we are playing these days: foreign assassinations, extraordinary rendition, and prisoner export.

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War Powers, War Lies: Part 7: Captive Taxonomy

Posted on August 5, 2005, 11:36 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

But we had better be prepared for the consequences. Someone, somewhere, is going to try us, quite seriously, for war crimes. And somewhere else, someone is going to commit war crimes against our soldiers because we fail to recognize their own combatants as POWs. And it won’t be pretty.

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War Powers, War Lies: Part 4: Willingly Deceived

Posted on April 29, 2005, 6:08 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column | Next Big Picture Column War Powers Page | Previous War Powers Column | Next War Powers Column War Powers, War Lies: A Series Part 4: Willingly Deceived Published in the Maryland Daily Record April 29, 2005 Last time, we considered the dishonesty of President Lyndon Johnson in […]

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War Powers, War Lies: Part 9: Away Games

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