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1.UN Assembly Draft Urges
Action on Gaza War Crimes

/ - Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council./ (I  am interested in knowing if YOU think action should be taken on this issue?  I think it should be regardless if it is the US or our allies should not matter we should all be held to the same international standards-I have petitioned the International criminal court on more than one occasion to  investigate the US on war crimes pertaining to Iraq-What is YOUR opinion if YOU have one or do YOU just follow the crowd?)

/There’s no debate within the Democratic Party or in the White House about whether to end the war. The only thing being debated is how to continue the war./ (Once again I will ask YOUR opinion on an issue do YOU  believe the US should be in Afghanistan fighting? I don’t it is my understanding that we are there making it a battleground in our leaders “Overseas Contingency Operation”-See Obama has already ended the War on Terror see how simple that was-It’s a little like Bush claiming victory in Iraq, but without all the glitz-Before YOU answer if YOU have the courage to ask YOURSELF if YOU would like another country making the US a battleground an illegal battleground I might add both under Constitutional and International Law?

/Abdullah’s withdrawal from the presidential runoff leaves Hamid Karzai in power but without legitimacy/ (Do YOU believe Karzai should have done this in many ways this was a harder question for me to answer than the others I would have to agree with Karzai because I feel sure he weighed all the Pros/Cons what about YOU? Or do YOU even care?

1.Polling the Polarized Kelley B. Vlahos on public opinion and Afghanistan

/Which is funny, because only 50 percent of the respondents in that same poll believed the war was worth fighting.Then, as Obama pressed on with a fresh military offensive in southern Afghanistan in June, cracks began showing in the bold edifice constructed to herald the advent of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency doctrine in Afghanistan. People were talking and writing about their fears publicly. Not surprisingly, Democrats became less enamored of “surging,” even under a Democratic president, and their support for the war began to subtly drop. (I will tell YOU what’s strange about this because nothing is funny, and that is that both parties no longer even seem to debate the issue that what we are doing is illegal.

2.Russia, France, and Iran’s Uranium Even paranoids have memories, says M. Sahimi

/Iran’s formal response to a preliminary nuclear agreement whereby 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) would be shipped to Russia and then France for enrichment from 3.8 to 19.75 percent and conversion to fuel rods has angered the European Union (EU). (What surprises me is that Iran is agreeing to any of this if the situation was reversed I don’t think any of the other countries involved would agree to such a plan-Does Iran want Peace more than the rest of us?

3.Ali al-Marri’s Eight-Year Sentence Andy Worthington on the end of an injustice

/Marri’s guilty plea in April,

/and subsequently charged with crimes including credit card fraud and identity theft (I was a law enforcement officer in my private career, and it was my experience that when the prosecutor begin adding offenses like this I knew his main charge was non existence or very weak, and I believe not the intent of the law.)-I believe Ali-Marri’s should be released with time served.)

 

My personal closing the other contributors had no input.