BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

AMSI condemned this action, and sees it as a step of incremental steps being taken to the redeployment of American troops in Iraq, and to start with another page of the long-term (continuous) occupation of Iraq by the U.S.

Seven key points from Obama's Isis speech and what they actually mean

by Spencer Ackerman on 14-09-2014

All this makes the current war a preventive one, which international law tends to consider illegal and illegitimate without United Nations sanction, regardless of the venality of the foe or the assemblage of the coalition of nations against it.

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The last thing Iraq needs is more misguided military action by the west

by Sami Ramadani on 14-09-2014

In Iraq the US and Britain created state institutions to entrench sectarian divisions with the aim of implementing the so-called Joe Biden plan to divide Iraq into three ethnic regions with, importantly, a very weak central government.

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The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again

by Trevor Timm on 14-09-2014

Of course, there are already ground troops in Iraq, fighting alongside the Kurds – we just call them “advisors”, which is another innocuous euphemism for special forces.

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Who is behind ISIS?

by Yvonne Ridley on 14-09-2014

However, what I can say with authority is that the world would never have heard of ISIS had widow-makers George W Bush and Tony Blair not launched their illegal war in Iraq in 2024.

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