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Known and Unknown: Donald Rumsfeld's Defense of the Bush Administration's Iraq Policies

On 8 February 2011 former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld published his highly anticipated memoir “Known and Unknown”.  The title refers to the dilemma of having to act on uncertain and incomplete information and...
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IVAW to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman: Fulfill Our Nation's Moral Obligation to Iraqi Refugees

On 25 February 2011, IVAW submitted a letter to Sentor Dan Inouye, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, urging his committee to continue to provide the financial resources needed to address the long term...
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IVAW to Justice Department: Investigate INC Ties to Iraqi WMD Intelligence Fabricator 'Curveball'

On 15 February 2011, the Guardian reported that Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, code-named 'Curveball' by U.S. intelligence officials, admitted to fabricating knowledge of Saddam Hussein's alleged biological weapons program...
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Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (ret.) Calls for Truth Commission to Revisit Bush Interrogation Policies

In the January/February 2011 edition of The Atlantic, David Freed reported that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (ret.) is calling for a "truth commission" to revisit the Bush administration's interrogation policies.  He reasons...

IVAW Reparations Committee Objectives FY 2011

Background Oil & Gas Legislation and Economic Sovereignty Heading into 2011, the newly formed Iraqi government will be expected to pass long-awaited oil and gas legislation governing foreign investment in its...
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Wikileaks' Iraq Documents Further Demonstrate Cynical Policies of Bush Administration

The American public now knows that the Bush administration authorized the CIA to employ torture against suspected high level Al Qaeda operatives in the name of national security.  The public was told that these techniques...
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General Accuses Bush Officials of "Deception"

On October 13, Thomas Ricks, writing for Foreign Policy, quoted former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton from his book Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior: President Bush and his team got us...
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Iraq Trip Report-Back: Humbling

(Written by Aaron Hughes.  Published Spring 2009, Volume 39, Number 1 of The Veteran, A Publication of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.) Thank you VVAW and US Labor Against the War for your generous contribution to help...
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Iraq: What Now For IVAW?

(Published Fall 2009, Volume 39, Number 2 of The Veteran, a publication of Vietnam Veterans Against the War) Under the terms of the Status of Forces Agreement, the US government is legally bound to withdraw its troops...
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An Act of Resistance and Redemption

On October 5, 2007 I watched Fort Huachuca, Arizona fade into the distance in my rearview mirror for the last time. I'd spent the past five months waiting for my chain-of-command to decide what to do with me: a newly...
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Congressional Record on Iraqi Labor Rights

For the past several months, IVAW and U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) have been gathering signatures from members of Congress in support of Iraqi labor rights.  To date, 21 out of 435 members of the House of...
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Targeting Oil Companies & Their Political Allies

Briefing presented to members and allies of Iraq Veterans Against the War at IVAW's 2010 National Convention in Austin, Texas: History of international oil company relations with Iraq and foreign political interference...
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Is the U.S. Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?

Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq’s oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the...

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