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  Kevin Sites Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I'm also well aware from many years as a war reporter that there have been times, especially in this conflict, when dead and wounded insurgents have been booby-trapped, even supposedly including an incident that happened just a block away from the mosque in which one Marine was killed and five others wounded.
But observing all of this as an experienced war reporter who always bore in mind the dark perils of this conflict, even knowing the possibilities of mitigating circumstances -- it appeared to me very plainly that something was not right.
In war, as in life, there are plenty of opportunities to see the full spectrum of good and evil that people are capable of.
www.kevinsites.net   (5629 words)

  
 Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
The war against al Qaeda and its supporters is not being fought by the United States alone but by a broad coalition of states facing a common threat.
Christian just war theory has traditionally accepted that the criteria of the just war are "mixed" as between those which are about the enforcement and defense of one's rights and the rights of a political community - just cause, for example - and those which are about taking into account ultimate real world consequences.
His war on terror is a total global war against a movement comprised of terrorist groups and their state sponsors.
kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com   (15238 words)

  
 The War in Iraq and the Catholic Just War Tradition - Blog
The war overseas does not prove that it is not effective, but that it is. But the latter three cities, however orchestrated, are part of the same war.
With respect to the war in Iraq, it must be recognized that Pope Benedict has offered a somewhat stronger, more explicit opinion on the war in Iraq, as documented by Michael Griffin of the Catholic Peace Fellowshiop ("A New Peace Pope").
Likewise, in a Frontline Investigate report on the Iraq war and civilian casualties, all the participants interviewed indicate that a priority for the military was the minimization of harm to civilians.
catholicjustwar.blogspot.com   (8180 words)

  
 AlterNet: Special Coverage: War on Iraq
Major unions and labor councils across the land have passed resolutions in support of inspections and advocating efforts for a peaceful resolution.
Iraq War veterans return home with excruciating mental and physical ailments -- and the treatment they are able to receive is shoddy at best.
The war on Iraq has not only made the country and world less safe, it has erased the social and political rights of women who were the most liberated in the Middle East.
www.alternet.org /waroniraq   (715 words)

  
 Iraq news
Cheney has been among the administration's most forceful advocates of war and was outspoken in describing Iraq's alleged threat.
Bush cast it as a broader war against terrorism, calling Iraq the central front, and said democracy would spread in the Middle East if it should take hold in Iraq.
Straw said the issue facing lawmakers when they voted to go to war in March 2003 was Saddam's failure to comply with United Nations resolutions that threatened "serious consequences" if Iraq failed to show it had handed over or destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.
iraqnewsonline.blogspot.com   (5430 words)

  
 Iraq War Blog - Iraqi Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In a war where the line between civilian and soldier is blurred, even man's best friend has been caught up in the combat.
In a war marked by sectarian bombings and civilian casualties, Juba is unusual in targeting only coalition troops, a difficult quarry protected by armoured vehicles, body armour and helmets.
But today, two years after the start of an Iraq war in which traditional front lines were virtually obliterated and women were tasked to fill lethal combat roles more routinely than in any conflict in U.S. history, the nation may be just beginning to see and feel the effects of such service.
vikingphoenix.com /blog/milblog/iraqwarblog.html   (16497 words)

  
 MY WAR: Killing Time In Iraq
Without blog and book, his options would have been narrow: Toting a machine gun for a year didn't prepare him for much in the postwar world, and as for "having a boss yell at me for showing up to work five minutes late or tell me that I'm not smiling enough at the customers"—well, impossible.
Blogs are, in some way, a defining cultural phenomenon of the war in Iraq, much as psychedelic music provided the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.
Written under the nom de guerre of CBFTW (Colby Buzzell F -- This War), the blog is a mixture of gripping accounts of caffeine-driven battle maneuvers and amusing vignettes from the dusty grind of life in Iraq's third-largest city.
cbftw.blogspot.com   (9823 words)

  
 Blogging the War: A Guide (washingtonpost.com)
A number of blogs have a feature on their sites for readers to donate money to various causes -- a sign that many of the blogs are grassroots efforts, compiled in basements and as moonlighting projects.
War blogs have proved to be a wildly popular part of the war-reporting machine.
The blog says its name is from "Cornelius Tacitus, known as the greatest of the Roman historians." In an October 2002 posting, the blog's author noted: "Tacitus favors the Iraqi war, given a rational and thorough followup.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A42614-2003Mar28.html   (1820 words)

  
 Antiwar Conservative
It is believed by some that Bush 41 himself opposed this war, which may have created a division between him and his son.
Secretary of State Powell has recently been attempting to distance himself from the war, and has claimed that deliberate deception was used to make the case for it.
This blog was originally started, however, to be an archive of my past (pre-March 2003) main blog entries that had to do with war and foreign policy.
warconservative.blogspot.com   (7225 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Depth | 2003 | Reporters Log | Reporters' log: Final thoughts
There was one particular day when the reality of war really came home to me. The 3rd Infantry Division, the unit I was with, was pushing in from the west.
This was the fascinating thing about this war: you had this absolute avalanche of material from our BBC colleagues in Baghdad and with the actual units in the field.
This war went very well for the coalition, and this highly intrusive press arrangement served them, because it was largely reporting on success - dramatic movement, collapsing Iraqi formations and so on.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/reporters_log/default.stm   (2419 words)

  
 Where is Raed ?
So I assume you have been reading the blog and already know that the prophet announced before his death that whoever sees a leader in him should see a leader in his cousin Ali.
There was a war almost a year ago and we have to deal with its consequences, there was time for debate much earlier.
Even before the war, when people were theoretically discussing future models of Iraq the idea of a federal state made me feel a bit uneasy, the thought that the Kurds might not like us Arab-Iraqis at all was always brushed away.
dear_raed.blogspot.com   (6142 words)

  
 Perry: Bush Wars :
It's in a primitive state as yet (read: we're still using the same old Manila blogging software), but before long we'll be sprucing it up; you'll be able to sort posts there by subject and author to get to the news and links you're after.
Because this battle was waged on the heels of their receiving Time’s blog of the year citation, the spat got more than its share of attention and wound up drawing blood when TCF pulled its ads from the paper.
Or consider the right-wing blogs’ dueling weapon of choice, a practice known as “fisking” that consists of reproducing whole stories from other media and yelling at them in hectoring, frequently disjointed asides until the fisk-er either reaches the end of the text or passes out from hyperventilating.
babelogue.citypages.com:8080 /sperry   (3382 words)

  
 Bjørn Stærk blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dumb in the way it was dumb of Bush to call the war on terror a crusade.
In a friendly interpretation, both metaphors clumsily summarize more intelligent ideas, but to people who know the full weight of the terms, and / or is outside the circle of good faith, they sound callous and stupid, at worst a confirmation of the evil intentions and moral degradation of their political opponents.
New post in Dagbladet's blog, about the anti-climax of NRK Brennpunkt's much hyped documentary about cooperation between the unions and leftist parties, and how the real problem is an overlooked conflict of interest, not the nature of their relationship a such.
www.bearstrong.net /warblog   (1921 words)

  
 Jed Babbin on U.N. on National Review Online
And it really is pushing the development of international law where they will have to discuss questions of when preventive war is acceptable, under what rules, and who approves.
Under the rules the panel recommends, preemptive war can only be undertaken when the Security Council says that a threat is imminent.
It recommends five criteria for the Security Council to judge petitions for permission to preempt: the seriousness of the threat, proper purpose (what motivates the proposed preempter?), whether it is a last resort, whether proportional means are used, and whether military action is likely to have better or worse results than inaction.
www.nationalreview.com /babbin/babbin.asp   (1376 words)

  
 OJR article: Let Slip the Blogs of War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For it is in spending time with the war blogs that one comes to know the chaos, the inhumanity, the ultimate futility of war.
The blogging community was recently torn by controversy when Joanne Jacobs failed to show sufficient knowledge of blog history.
The second element of war blogging -- and perhaps the one that makes it distinctive -- is the frequent deployment of straw men.
www.ojr.org /ojr/workplace/1017770789.php   (2516 words)

  
 war:scan -- blogging the iraq-conflict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
war is all about the massacre of men who don't know each other, for the benefit of men who know each other but will not massacre each other
We are looking for more international bloggers to help fill this blog.
Live From Dallas: November 2004: "World Vision Australia, a nonprofit relief organization, which operated in Iraq since April 2003 is pulling its relief workers out of Iraq and closing its offices inside Iraq.
cyberabad.de /warscan   (1086 words)

  
 War Blog
Jim and Arlis Peitz watched as their 19-year-old grandson, Michael Peitz, was preparing to go to war.
The United States-led reconstruction effort in Iraq is "in chaos" and suffering from "a complete absence of strategic direction", a very senior British official in Baghdad has said.
While America became acquainted with numerous U.S. military units thanks to 24-hour cable television coverage of the war in Iraq, other soldiers performed their duties outside the eye of the camera and closer to home.
www.brandonblog.homestead.com /war-blog-96.html   (2186 words)

  
 The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog
This Friday, as we stand in the shadow of a wrong Iraq War policy that was initiated in early 2003, that policy is (sorta of) coming to an end.
It was a war on Iraq(Messopatamia- the seat of civilization with untold myriads of priceless treasures), of all the stupid places in the world to do wars on.
One by one The Iraq War has seemed to fallen off the radar of blogger after blogger until, nowadays theres only me and a handful of other holdouts(Willis, Leiter, ect) who still uses the forum of Blogging for its highest purpose as it was intended.
iraqwarwrong.blogspot.com   (5555 words)

  
 A Soldiers Blog
The Iraq war and occupation has claimed over 1,623 troops, including 1,244 killed in action so far, according to the Pentagon's latest numbers.
The amendment asks for $213 million to be added to the measure keep the only armored humvee production plant running at a two shift capacity this summer instead of shutting it down and laying off workers for lack of orders from the Army.
The Department of North Carolina: Veterans of Foreign Wars together with the Departments of Virginia, Delaware, Missouri and Wyoming are pleased to announce that our new Military WebCOM Video Conferencing Program for our soldiers and their families is ready for Beta Testing.
asoldiersblog.blogspot.com   (3597 words)

  
 Warblogging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One of the most calm and intelligent anti-war voices on the Net, George Paine is at his best providing "a bird's eye view of the perpetual, 1984-style war we've found ourselves in," with particular emphasis on analyzing the rapid, ongoing erosion of U.S. civil liberties.
If you're not reading George Paine's War Blogging, you're missing one of the sharpest and most intelligent anti-war voices in the country.
Check out War Blogging because George Paine understands.
www.warblogging.com   (324 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Arianna Huffington, writing for AlterNet, is even more cautionary: “The anti-war movement did not oppose the war out of fear that America was going to lose.
Blogging pioneer Doc Searls has an idealistic proposal for restoring, at least in part, the treasures lost in the Baghdad looting.
If we put the information on television, the radio, and the Net about the importance of these artifacts, people will be inspired to return them for the good of the nation.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/weblog.htm   (1189 words)

  
 Saddam's Cyber Palace
The Raging Grannies are a group of five grandmothers in Tucson who have been protesting the war against Iraq.
I figured Iraq was headed for a simple, run of the mill three way civil war.
Please do not be stupid enough to believe that this blog is actually written by Saddam himself.
saddamhussein.blogspot.com   (2474 words)

  
 Matt Welch
George W. Bush has pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent.
Worse yet, the growing unpopularity of the war threatens to undo all the electoral gains we conservatives have achieved in this decade.
the savages have declared war, and it's far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender).
mattwelch.com /warblog.html   (4571 words)

  
 Baghdad Burning
The war was brought to us here, and now we have to watch the country disintegrate before our very eyes.
By doing such things, this war is taken to another level- it is no longer a war against terror or terrorists- it is, quite simply, a war against Islam and even secular Muslims are being forced to take sides.
After the war, there were other radio stations- ones with mechanical voices that told us to put down our weapons and remain inside our homes, ones that fed us American news in an Iraqi dialect and ones that just played music.
riverbendblog.blogspot.com   (15056 words)

  
 The Blogs of War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Angelo Codevilla's critiques of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror have been the clearest and (to me) most interesting and persuasive of all the post-911 commentary.
Just because Moore and others of his ilk (broadly speaking, the inheritors of the excesses of the 1968/New Left spin on "social justice" and the Cold War) have cheapened the coin of progressive politics doesn't mean that the issues have disappeared.
In the media war as in the culture war, a less condescending, less anti-American Left that didn't seem quite so "stuck-up" would actually have quite a bit going for it.
blogsofwar.blogspot.com   (6081 words)

  
 The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely
NYT - As the last major battle of the war in Afghanistan began, hidden from view inside the caves were an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 well-trained, well-armed men.
LAT - The big lesson of Katrina is not about the incompetence of the Bush administration, the scandalous neglect of poor fl people in the United States or our unpreparedness for major natural disasters, though all of those apply.
AP/WaPo - The story of the weapons that weren't there, the prelude to war, was over, but a long post-mortem is still unfolding - of lingering questions in Washington, of revelations from investigations, leaks, first-person accounts.
www.agonist.org   (3405 words)

  
 The Becker-Posner Blog
A blog by Gary Becker and Richard Posner
Now that the immediate crisis is over, the question arises of the amount and form of compensation of the victims.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
www.becker-posner-blog.com   (5195 words)

  
 War and Piece
Instead of fighting the real war that was thrust upon us on that incomprehensible morning four years ago, we stubbornly insisted on fighting a war of the imagination, an ideological struggle that we defined not by frankly appraising the real enemy before us but by focusing on the mirror of our own obsessions.
Civil wars, of course, are especially bloody, and a civil war is now being fought in Iraq.
The war room, which the administration is calling the Social Security Information Center, will track lawmakers' remarks to their local news outlets, to help the White House detect signs of Republican concern or Democratic compromise.
www.warandpiece.com   (15576 words)

  
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Now, this war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion.
It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.
And some of us have decided that it is a war not worth fighting - at least not fully.
www.iraqwarnews.net   (3629 words)

  
 TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A blog that came into being after 9/11 and deals with the war against terrorists.
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www.techweb.com /encyclopedia/defineterm?term=Warblog   (258 words)

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