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Captain SKA - There's Been A War Crime

2014-12-20T22:30:48.595Z

Tired of waiting for the Chilcot inquiry to be released, Captain SKA have published their own musical verdict.

There's been a war crime committed. It's a fact. No reason to get upset about it.

Iraq War Veteran, Activist Tomas Young Dies at 34 - News Headlines for Tuesday, November 11

2014-11-11T21:47:03.277Z

Iraq War veteran and antiwar activist Tomas Young has died just weeks before his 35th birthday. In 2004, Young was shot and paralyzed in Iraq. Last year, 10 years after the Iraq invasion, Young announced his intention to take his own life due to immense suffering from his injuries. He wrote a letter to former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, which he read in a Democracy Now! interview.

Tomas Young: "My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live."

Young later decided to live. He died this week at home in Seattle. We will talk more about Young after headlines with Phil Donahue, who co-directed a film about him called "Body of War."

Visit http://democracynow.org to watch the daily independent, global news hour.

Lawyer Wages Suit Against Bush For Iraqi Mother!

2014-05-30T12:12:07.701Z

Iraqi single mother and refugee Sundus Shaker Saleh is pressing charges against former President Bush and five other members of his administration. Lawyer In...

Bush Committed War Crimes, says Former Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke

2014-05-28T16:55:41.167Z

In a Democracy Now! exclusive, the nation’s former top counterterrorism official has said he believes President George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes for launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Richard Clarke served as national coordinator for security and counterterrorism during President Bush’s first year in office. He resigned in 2003 following the Iraq invasion and later made headlines by accusing Bush officials of ignoring pre-9/11 warnings about an imminent attack by al-Qaeda. On Tuesday, Clarke spoke to Democracy Now! in an interview that will air next week.

Amy Goodman: "Do you think President Bush should be brought up on war crimes [charges], and Vice President Cheney and [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld, for the attack on Iraq?"

Richard Clarke: "I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have. But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration. It’s clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least, it’s clear that some of the things they did were war crimes."

Tune in to Democracy Now! next week for the full interview.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/28/headlines#52811

Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Accuses Bush and Cheney of War Crimes, Murder and Plunder

2013-03-21T17:20:18.553Z

http://www.democracynow.org - Iraq War veteran Tomas Young was left paralyzed in a 2004 attack in Iraq. Released from medical care three months later, Young ...