In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (American Empire Project)
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In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
From Booklist As Americans undergo an agonizing reappraisal of the war in Iraq and its relationship to the war on terror, strong evidence has arisen that America's war crimes are normative rather than exceptional infractions by a few low-ranking individuals, as commonly portrayed. American Empire Project Paperback: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.
Please try again later. This useful collection examines the evidence for US war crimes in Iraq and elsewhere. It concludes that the US state is destroying democracy in the name of defending it.
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Part 1 looks at the war crimes of illegally invading and occupying another country. It shows how the US-British occupation, an illegal continuation of an illegal war, has broken all the laws of occupation. There were , excess deaths in the year after the invasion Lancet , mostly from US air strikes. The USA is waging war largely by massive, unreported, bombing: The occupying forces continue to commit war crimes - they attack and kill civilians, using cluster bombs, depleted uranium shells and napalm.
They drove , residents out of Fallujah and killed more than 1, people; half of them women and children. They deny food, water, electricity and medical supplies to civilians and attack hospitals and ambulances.
The Justice Department, like the Pentagon, issued statements purporting to justify the use of torture. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. The result is a controversial, chilling anthology that explores the culpability of officials as well as the responsibilities of ordinary citizens, and for the first time squarely confronts the matter of American impunity. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? In the Name of Democracy:
They demolish homes, a collective punishment outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. They create death squads to set Shia against Sunni.
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Part 2 discusses the US and British forces' use of torture. But decisions by policymakers determine decisions by interrogators: Rumsfeld said, "Unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention. Rumsfeld's ruling by contrast authorised any and all abuses, and is itself a war crime. The Justice Department, like the Pentagon, issued statements purporting to justify the use of torture. At Nuremberg, the US prosecutor cited this as an aggravating circumstance in seeking and obtaining the death sentence for Keitel.
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John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, said, "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so The buck stops at the top. Moreover, the Blair government is complicit in all these crimes, since in law it is responsible for the war crimes committed by its ally, the Bush government.
As the International Law Commission's Article 16 on Responsibility of States says, "A State which aids or assists another State in the commission of an internationally wrongful act by the latter is internationally responsible for doing so if a That State does so with knowledge of the internationally wrongful act; and b The Act would be internationally wrongful if committed by that State.
Jeremy Brecher sifts through mountains of evidence to question how the United States can justify torturing people if we are trying to convince them that adopting a western-style democracy is in their own best interests. Furthermore, he argues these events are not isolated incidents. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Afghanistan 36 America 39 American Empire Project 30 American History 86 American politics 24 Chomsky 30 current affairs current events 56 economics 28 empire 55 energy 30 foreign policy geopolitics 25 globalization 24 government 27 history imperialism international relations 58 Iraq 48 Iraq War 25 Latin America 42 Middle East 44 militarism 51 military 75 non-fiction oil 34 political science politics read 29 terrorism 45 to-read unread 26 US Foreign Policy 44 US History 61 US politics 29 usa Vietnam 26 Vietnam War 32 war wishlist The New American Militarism: Related series The American Empire Project.
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