| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American empire project |
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American empire project.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Selected principles of international law / United Nations and Nuremberg Tribunal Charters -- Tearing up the rules : the illegality of invading Iraq / Center for Economic and Social Rights -- An illegal war / BBC interview with Kofi Annan -- Some legal aspects of the military operation in Iraq / Christian Dominice -- Iraq : civilians under fire / Amnesty International -- U.S. forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is "illegal" / Neil Mackay -- U.S. admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq / Andrew Buncombe -- Investigate alleged violations of law in Fallujah attack / Jim McDermott and Richard Rapport -- Situation of civilians in Fallujah, Iraq / Louise Arbour -- Iraq's civilian dead get no hearing in the United States / Jeffery Sachs -- Denial of water to Iraqi cities / Daniel O-Huiginn and Alison Klevnas -- Letter to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee / Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal -- The Taguba Report on treatment of Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq / Antonio M. Taguba -- Torture e-mails / Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Individual accounts of torture / Center for Constitution al Rights -- Iraqi died while hanging by his wrists / Seth Hettena -- The road to Abu Ghraib / Human Rights Watch -- A Nuremberg lesson : torture scandal began far above "rotten apples" / Scott Horton -- The war crimes of the occupation / Mark LeVine -- The case against Rumsfeld : hard facts timeline / American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First -- The torture memo by Judge Jay S. Bybee / John W. Dean -- Memorandum from Alberto R. Gonzales to the President -- Senate Judiciary Committee Attorney General confirmation hearing for Alberto Gonzales / Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, and Alberto Gonzales -- The Gonzales indictment / Majorie Cohn -- Flawed investigations / National Public Radio interview with Mark Danner -- The national security strategy of the United States of America / President of the United States -- The coming wars / Seymour Hersh -- Shopping for war / Bob Herbert -- "The Salvadore option" : the Pentagon may put special-forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq / Michael Hirsh and John Barry with Mark Hosenball -- Long-term plan sought for terror suspects / Dana Priest -- There is no one left to stop them / Paul Craig Roberts -- From Nuremberg to Guantanamo : international law and American power politics / Lisa Hajjar -- Torture in Iraq and the rule of law in America / Sanford Levinson -- Standing for the founding principles of the Republic / Robert Byrd -- Institutional barriers to war crimes : failure and renewal / Bruce Shapiro -- Just war, or just a war? / Jimmy Carter -- What the rest of the world watched on inauguration day / Joan Chittister -- Breaking ranks / David Goodman -- "I refuse to be a pawn" / Jeremy Hinzman -- Military families speak out / Nancy Lessin -- Civilians we killed / Michael Hoffman -- Truths worth telling / Daniel Ellsberg -- What I didn't find in Africa / Joseph C. Wilson IV -- An open letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee / David M. Brahms and others -- Affirmative measures to halt U.S. war crimes / Jeremy Brecher -- Watergate and Abu Ghraib : holding war criminals accountable in the U.S. courts and Congress / Elizabeth Holtzman -- Blue-ribbon panel calls for independent commission on prisoner abuse / Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Initiative -- Resisting war crimes : Vietnam and Iraq / Michael Ferber -- Enforcing international law through civil disobedience : the trial of the St. Patrick's four / Bill Quigley -- "My duty as an able-bodied American citizen to say no" / Oona Clare DeFlaun ... [et al.] -- Reclaiming the prophetic voice / John Humphries -- Counterrecruitment : cutting off the cannon fodder / Marela Zacarias -- The accountability of leaders : a challenge to governments and civil society / Richard Falk -- Why war crimes matter / Brendan Smith. |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Atrocities.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Iraq.
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War crimes.
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| Added Author |
Brecher, Jeremy.
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Cutler, Jill.
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Smith, Brendan, 1972-
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| ISBN |
9780805079692 |
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0805079696 |
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