So what does international law have to say about the Iraq war. Watch the below video and it should answer your questions. Do not let the simple illustration fool you. There are great facts presented in this video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Khut8xbXK8[/youtube]
This is CRAZY. Is this how pro war people support other military family members? 
Account of what happened from Arredondo’s wife By Mélida Arredondo:
Carlos Arredondo, 47 year old father of two sons, arrived in the nation’s capitol on Monday, 09/10/07 to share a memorial he has made to honor for his eldest son, Alex. Carlos has visited thirty of the United States with the traveling memorial to his son Alexander. Lcpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, USMC was killed on 08/25/04. He was 20 years and 20 days old. The memorial consists of a casket, poster- size photographs of Alex when he graduated from boot camp, before his second tour in Iraq, lying in state at his wake, and a photo of Alex with his younger brother Brian.
Saturday, September 15, 2007 consisted of first a rally, a march towards the capitol and then a die-in. Carlos pulled
the memorial along the march route approaching the rotunda near the capitol building. Several of the marchers requested for him to speak about the memorial where a crowd gathered around him. After finishing, several people walked with Carlos as he pulled the memorial. Several pictures of Alex dressed in his blues were attached to the display.
As Carlos passed counter protesters, one man ripped a picture of Alex from the memorial. Carlos leaped on the man to retrieve the picture. It was at that point that approximately five others all began to attack Carlos by kicking him in the head, legs, stomach and back.
The Capitol police bicycle patrol then appeared to break up the fight. Several officers including a female officer were engaged in breaking up the fight and were able to stop any further injuries from occurring. Hannah Jones who was walking with Carlos was also assaulted.
A bystander named Ramesh witnessed the whole encounter and also retrieved the picture of Alex for Carlos. He was quite distressed at how he watched the men follow Carlos as he pulled the memorial, purposefully yelling epiphets and eventually taking Alex’s photograph. Soon, an ambulance showed up as well as many concerned activists. The paramedics provided first aid to Carlos but he did not seek further medical attention. Carlos sustained bloody cuts on his shins. He also reported bruises all over his torso and head where he was kicked.
Let’s debate this! The Bush administration is really trying to cut off any antiwar demonstrations. The actions taken by the police are way out of hand. I will have to ask my cousin who is a lawyer to see if there were any illegal actions done on both sides.
More than a dozen police officers converged at a corner of Lafayette Square yesterday, bringing with them a horse and extra handcuffs.
Their target: a handful of demonstrators who had gathered to post two signs on an electrical box advertising a protest march Sept. 15 against the Iraq war.
During a clash that drew a crowd during lunchtime, two demonstrators, including an Iraq war veteran and the mother of another veteran, were arrested on charges of defacing public property. Police charged a third protester with impeding an officer.
“It was a case of extreme police overreaction,” said Brian Becker, a protest organizer.
The D.C. government has fined the coalition about $20,000 for posting signs, and the Park Service has asked the group to remove them.
The coalition countered by filing a lawsuit challenging the District’s regulations. The suit is pending.
The group assembled for a news conference yesterday at Lafayette Square to promise to put up more posters, regardless of possible sanctions. Within minutes, the pledge was tested. An officer approached and asked whether the demonstrators had a permit for their gathering.
More officers arrived, including several dressed in black commando-style uniforms and one atop a horse that he maneuvered to push back the crowd.
Read more from the Washington Post
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Man, Keith is on fire with this one. I don’t think I need to say a whole lot about this. Watch it for yourself!
Guys and gals, this is a very interesting paper. It’s 80 pages but well worth the read on the possibility of the rouge nation called the U.S. and its war against anyone it dislikes. The paper is written by Dr. Plesch and Martin Butcher, you can find more about them below.
Some highlights of the paper:
The study concludes that the US has made military preparations to
destroy Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and
economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush
giving the order. The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to
deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the option
of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping
Iran’s actions.
Dr. Plesch is Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. Martin Butcher is an international consultant on security politics. This paper presents the views of the authors and not of CISD/SOAS. The School of Oriental and African Studies cannot accept responsibility for direct or indirect consequences resulting from this communication.
I plan on seeing this one and hope all of you will do the same, if you have a chance.
NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions?
See more about the film here….
OK very quick post for this morning. Just came across this video. If you didn’t know about the Sept 15 protest, you do now.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCSRXEAnxF4[/youtube]
It’s amazing how things change over the course of several years. I kind of see Dick Cheney as Anakin Skywalker who turns into Dark Vader. Luck was always evil by nature just as Dick is.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I[/youtube]
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