Behind the News

White House Official Warned in 2002
of Possible US War Crimes
Newsweek

In January 2002 the White House's top lawyer warned that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for "war crimes" as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism, according to an internal White House memo and interviews with participants in the debate over the issue.
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Romania Aims To Track Crimes of Communist Regime
International Herald Tribune

In the cavernous Victory Palace, the home of Romania's government, history is being made in a small two-room office. Here, a staff of just three people under Marius Oprea has embarked on a task that until this year had been blocked by successive governments since the execution of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989. Oprea, 41, is in charge of the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/19/ news/romania.php

A Legacy of Unjustified Wars
Charley Reese

When is a nation justified in making the decision to kill other people and destroy their property? I think the rule is the same as it is for individuals. You are justified in killing only in defense of your own life or the lives of others for whom you are responsible. By that definition, the U.S. has fought only one justified war in this and the past century.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese268.html

A Collapsing Presidency
Paul Craig Roberts

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that President Bush’s support among the American people has fallen to 33 percent. Even more devastatingly, the survey finds that people’s most frequently used one-word description of President Bush is "incompetent." Abroad among peoples who formerly looked to America for leadership, American atrocities in Iraq have created sympathy and support for the Iraqi resistance.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts15 6.html