On the ninth anniversary of America’s longest war, the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq remain bloody, employing more contractors, while drones rain death upon Pakistan. In the months since this statement was written, U.S. courts have ruled that innocents who have been tortured may not sue, while the Obama administration defends those who directed that torture be used. When leaking war crimes is criminalized, remaining silent is a crime. motherless. The This message is signed by: James Abourezk • Aris Anagnos uch measures by Bush were widely U.S. military fi rst S • Rocky Anderson • Edward Asner • William Ayers • considered by liberals and progressives Roseanne Barr • M. Cherif Bassiouni • Blase Bonpane • said the two men to be outrages and were roundly, and Fr. Bob Bossie • Judith Butler • Matthis Chiroux • Noam killed were in- Chomsky • James Cromwell • Carl Dix • John Duran • correctly, protested. But those acts which surgents, and the Hester Eisenstein • Daniel Ellsberg • Jodie Evans • Tina may have been construed (wishfully or not) women, victims Monshipour Foster • Donald Freed • Annie • Laurie Gaylor as anomalies under the Bush regime • Mike Gravel • Steven Hays • Chris Hedges • Pardiss of a family “honor have now been consecrated into Kebriaei • Kathy Kelly • Uzma Khan • Joyce Kozloff • killing,” but the Dennis Loo • Ethan McCord • Ray McGovern • Cynthia “standard operating procedure” by Afghan govern- McKinney • Bill Quigley • Michael Ratner • Rev. George F. Obama, who claims, as did Bush, executive Regas • Stephen Rohde • Mark Ruffalo • Cindy Sheehan ment accepts privilege and state secrecy in defending • Jed Stone • Debra Sweet • Sunsara • Taylor • Cornel the eyewitness the crime of aggressive war. West • Andy Worthington • Ann Wright • David Zeiger reports that U.S. • Robert Zevin In appreciation of the work of Gene Case, 1937-2010 Special Forces Unsurprisingly the Obama administration CRIMES UNDER BUSH ARE CRIMES UNDER OBAMA AND MUST BE killed the men, RESISTED BY ANYONE WHO CLAIMS A SHRED OF CONSCIENCE has refused to prosecute any members STOP THE CRIMES OF OUR GOVERNMENT: (a police offi cer of the Bush regime who are responsible for and lawyer) and war crimes, including some who admitted Collateral Murder & Targeted Assassination It has become common knowledge the women, and then dug their own to waterboarding and other forms of torture, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20 7:00pm that Barack Obama has ordered the bullets out of the women’s bodies thereby making their actions acceptable SCREENING OF COLLATERAL MURDER, assassination of an American citizen, to destroy evidence. Top U.S. military for him or any future president. POSTED BY WIKILEAKS.ORG IN 2010 Anwar al-Aulaqi. Without trial or other offi cials have now admitted that U.S. judicial proceedings, the administration soldiers killed the family in their house. Ethan McCord, dissident Army veteran of the END THE COMPLICITY unit that killed 12 Iraqi civilians shown in has simply put him on the to-be-killed list.* Just weeks earlier, a story broken in OF SILENCE. SIGN THIS Collateral Murder. Whistleblowers in the military leaked Harper’s by Scott Horton carried news that STATEMENT & DONATE AT Pardiss Kebriaei, staff Attorney for the Center a video showing U.S. troops fi ring on an three supposed suicides of detainees in WORLDCANTWAIT.ORG for Constitutional Rights: The Case Against unarmed party of Iraqis in 2007, including Guantánamo in 2006 were not suicides, Targeted Assassinations by the U.S. two journalists, and then fi ring on those but possible homicides carried out by *On 9/24/10 the Justice Department asserted that “state secrets” bar any examination of Obama’s order. 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