Jon wrote:
> http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/index.html
>
> The new Pentagon papers
Aaron and I were discussing this article right before I headed out to
Portland. Pretty damn interesting. I'd like to read the other papers by the
author that were previously released anonymously, but haven't found the time.
If someone wants to post them here, I'd be grateful.
Also, on an unrelated note, I've been seeing so much talk of the one year
anniversary of the war on Iraq coming up. I thought the following comment
from the dnovpr list was insightful:
I must comment. NPR, VPR and the traditional media, and by the
way many liberal and progressive activist groups, have been
using the phrase "one year anniversary of the wa[r]" to mark
March 20. This is incorrect and as Peter Diamondstone puts
it "a distortion of history". The Iraq war has been going in since July,
1999 and has continued until the present time. Sanctions have
killed 1 - 2 million Iraqi. "Shock and Awe" itself started before
March 20, 2003. The conflict in Iraq is now the second longest
in United States History. Of course, there are reasons for
calling March 20th the "first" anniversary, and that is to set into
the collective consciousness of the public the unconscious
notion that war is a not-so-often tool of foreign policy and
is used as a last resort. The truth is quite the opposite,
but why make reference to that, it being the first casualty of war?
http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/dnonvpr/2004-03/msg00015.html
David
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