legislation Monday that would close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Guantanamo Bay has become a lightning rod for international condemnation,” Feinstein said. “Rather than make the United States safer, the image projected by this facility puts us at greater risk.” Since January 2002, the facility, also known as “Gitmo,” has housed suspected…
By Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg, San Francisco Chronicle There are people in Washington … who never intend to withdraw military forces from Iraq and they’re looking for 10, 20, 50 years in the future … the reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region, and…
Dave Lindorff, afterdowningstreet.org It’s been four years now since President Bush pulled his stunt of landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which his staff had ordered to circle around outside of San Diego for the purpose, and which they had decked out with a huge banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” for a backdrop. On its…
