The War Party has been trying to organize a divestment campaign against Iran modeled on the long-running South Africa anti-divestment campaign.
AIPAC alerts us to the fact that the California Iran Divestment Bill will be voted on in the next couple days in the State Senate.
Antiwar.com opposes all government-mandated sanctions and other economic pre-war steps. We urge Californians to contact their state senators and urge them to oppose this bill.
Thanks to Jack Dean at Pension Watch.
Iraq and Vietnam
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and author of The New American Militarism, and The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II, discusses the president’s comparison of Iraq to Vietnam, and some realistic ones.
MP3 here. (16:35)
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II (2007). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002), The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003), and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic . His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers.
Jose Padilla and the Descent Into Tyranny
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, discusses the Padilla case and the destruction of 800 years of Anglo-American legal tradition (and patiently listens as Scott goes on and on – sorry).
MP3 here. (41:38)
Andy Worthington is a British historian, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (to be published by Pluto Press in October 2007).
According to news source IraqSlogger, a high-level official from a watchdog group has been granted political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn’t been confirmed as yet, IraqSlogger notes that it comes from a "well-placed source."
The controversial figure granted the asylum, says IraqSlogger, may be Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who heads the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity. Judge al-Radhi and his family have received numerous threats already, and the fear of retaliation is great as many of al-Radhi’s colleagues and underlings have been murdered due to their work rooting out corruption in Iraq’s ministries.
The latest Zogby/UPI poll shows that Americans have little confidence in any of the Presidential candidates’ ability to handle the war in Iraq.
When asked: “Which of the 2008 presidential candidates would best handle the war in Iraq?”, No candidate receives more than 14%.
| Rudy Giuliani |
14%
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| Fred Thompson |
11%
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| Hillary Rodham Clinton |
10%
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| Barack Obama |
9%
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| John McCain |
7%
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| Joe Biden |
7%
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| John Edwards |
5%
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| Ron Paul |
4%
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| Mitt Romney |
4%
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| Bill Richardson |
4%
|
| Dennis Kucinich |
4%
|
| Unsure |
15%
|
If you ever thought that the Crusader Castle on the Tigris was nothing more than a useless, extravagant monument to the American neocons’ ego, look where George and Condi’s Imperial retinue headed when they snuck into Iraq this time.
