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Criticism of the War on Terror
Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morals, ethics, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. The notion of a "war" against "terrorism" has proven highly contentious, with critics charging that it has been exploited by participating governments to pursue long-standing policy/military objectives,[1] reduce civil liberties,[2] and infringe upon human rights. It is argued that the term war is not appropriate in this context (as in War on Drugs), since there is no identifiable enemy, and that it is unlikely international terrorism can be brought to an end by military means.[3]
Other critics, such as Francis Fukuyama, note that "terrorism" is not an enemy, but a tactic; calling it a "war on terror" obscures differences between conflicts such as anti-occupation insurgents and international mujahideen. With a military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and its associated collateral damage Shirley Williams maintains this increases resentment and terrorist threats against the west.[4] There is also perceived U.S. hypocrisy,[5] media induced hysteria,[6] and that differences in foreign and security policy have reduced the US image in most of the world.[7]
- 1 Terminology
- 2 "War on Terror" seen as pretext
- 3 Methods
- 4 Feminist Critique
- 5 Decreasing international support
- 6 Role of U.S. media
- 7 British objections
- 8 Pejorative terms
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
The billionaire activist investor George Soros has called "War on Terror" a "false metaphor."[8] Linguist George Lakoff of the Rockridge Institute has argued that there cannot literally be a war on terror, since terror is an abstract noun. "Terror cannot be destroyed by weapons or signing a peace treaty. A war on terror has no end."[9]
Jason Burke, a journalist who writes about radical Islamic activity, has this to say on the terms "terrorism" and "war against terrorism":
There are multiple ways of defining terrorism, and all are subjective. Most define terrorism as 'the use or threat of serious violence' to advance some kind of 'cause'. Some state clearly the kinds of group ('sub-national', 'non-state') or cause (political, ideological, religious) to which they refer. Others merely rely on the instinct of most people when confronted with an act that involves innocent civilians being killed or maimed by men armed with explosives, firearms or other weapons. None is satisfactory, and grave problems with the use of the term persist. Terrorism is after all, a tactic. The term 'war on terrorism' is thus effectively nonsensical. As there is no space here to explore this involved and difficult debate, my preference is, on the whole, for the less loaded term 'militancy'. This is not an attempt to condone such actions, merely to analyze them in a clearer way.[10]
Perpetual war[edit]
Former U.S. President George W. Bush articulated the goals of the "war on terror" in a September 20, 2001 speech, in which he said it "will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." [11] In that same speech, he called the war "a task that does not end", and was used by President Bush in his 2006 State of The Union address.
Preventive war[edit]
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The justification given for the invasion of Iraq (prior to its happening) was to prevent terrorist or other attacks by Iraq on the United States or other nations. This can be viewed as a conventional warfare realization of the war on terror.
A major criticism leveled at this justification is that, according to war opponents, it does not fulfill one of the requirements of a just war and that in waging a war preventively, the United States has undermined international law and the authority of the United Nations, particularly the United Nations Security Council. On this ground it has been advocated that by invading a country that does not pose an imminent threat and without UN support, the U.S. has violated international law, including the UN Charter and the Nuremberg principles and is guilty of committing a war of aggression, which is considered to be a war crime. Additional criticism has been raised that the United States has set a precedent, under the premise of which any nation could justify the invasion of other states.
Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that on the eve of U.S. intervention in 2003, Iraq represented, at best, a gathering threat and not an imminent one.[12] In hindsight he notes that Iraq did not even represent a gathering threat. "The decision to attack Iraq in March 2003 was discretionary; it was a war of choice. There was no vital American interests in imminent danger, and there were alternatives to using military force, such as strengthening existing sanctions."[13] By contrast, Haass argues that U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 began as a war of necessity—vital interests were at stake—but morphed "into something else, and it crossed a line in March 2009, when President Barack Obama` decided to sharply increase American troop levels and declared that it was U.S. policy to 'take the fight to the Taliban in the south and east' of the country."[13] Afghanistan, according to Haass, eventually became a war of choice.
"War on Terror" seen as pretext[edit]
Some[who?] have argued that part of the "War on Terror" has little to do with its stated purpose, since Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks and the invasion was carried out on the basis of faulty or doctored intelligence. Excerpts from an April 2006 report compiled from sixteen U.S. government intelligence agencies has strengthened the claim that engaging in Iraq has increased terrorism in the region.[14]
Domestic civil liberties[edit]
The "War on terror" has been seen as a pretext for reducing civil liberties. Within the United States, critics[who?] argue that the Bush Administration and lower governments have restricted civil liberties and created a "culture of fear". Bush introduced the USA PATRIOT Act legislation to the United States Congress shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which significantly expanded U.S. law enforcement's power.[citation needed] It has been criticized as being too broad and having been abused for purposes unrelated to counter-terrorism.[citation needed] President Bush had also proposed Total Information Awareness, a federal program to collect and process massive amounts of data to identify behaviors consistent with terrorist threats. It was heavily criticized as being an "Orwellian" case of mass surveillance.[citation needed]
In the United Kingdom, critics[who?] have claimed that the Blair government has used the War on Terror as a pretext to radically curtail civil liberties, some enshrined in law since Magna Carta. For example, the detention-without-trial in Belmarsh prison;[16] controls on free speech through laws against protests near Parliament[17] and laws banning the "glorification" of terrorism;[18] and reductions in checks on police power, as in the case of Jean Charles de Menezes[19] and Mohammed Abdul Kahar.[20]
Former Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell has also condemned Blair's inaction over the controversial U.S. practice of extraordinary rendition, arguing that the human rights conventions to which the UK is a signatory (e.g. European Convention on Human Rights) impose on the government a "legal obligation" to investigate and prevent potential torture and human rights violations.[21]
The remark, "You're either with us or you are with the terrorists," by U.S. President Bush in November 2001,[22] has been a source of criticism. Thomas A. Keaney of Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute said "it made diplomacy with a number of different countries far more difficult because obviously there are different problems throughout the world."[23]
Pax Americana[edit]
Some think that the United States intends "to establish a new political framework within which [it] will exert hegemonic control".[24] Many people[who?] say the United States seeks to do this by controlling access to oil or oil pipelines.[citation needed]
As a war against Islam[edit]
Since the war on terror has centred so much around the United States and other NATO states endeavouring to intervene in the internal affairs of Muslim countries (i.e. in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) and organisations, it has been labelled, for example by ex-United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark,[25] as a war against Islam. After his release from Guantanamo in 2005, ex-detainee Moazzam Begg appeared in the Islamist propaganda video 21st Century CrUSAders and claimed the U.S. is engaging in a new crusade:[26][27]
I think that history is definitely repeating itself and for the Muslim world, and I think even a great part of the non-Muslim world now, are beginning to recognize that there are ambitions that the United States has on the lands and wealth of nations of Islam.
Critics[who?] believe that interrogation methods employed by U.S. forces in places such as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. They believe that if U.S. forces act immorally or unethically then those forces are no better than the insurgents they are trying to find. The war on terrorism has been effectively called an act of terrorism in itself. Critics point to incidents such as the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the alleged use of chemical weapons against terrorists in Fallujah,[28] and the use of military force to disperse anti-American demonstrations in Iraq.[29]
Aiding terrorism[edit]
Each month, there are more suicide terrorists trying to kill Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other Muslim countries than in all the years before 2001 combined. From 1980 to 2003, there were 343 suicide attacks around the world, and at most 10 percent were anti-American inspired. Since 2004, there have been more than 2,000, over 91 percent against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries.
University of Chicago professor and political scientist, Robert Pape has written extensive work on suicide terrorism and states that it is triggered by military occupations, not extremist ideologies. In works such as Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Cutting the Fuse, he uses data from an extensive terrorism database and argues that by increasing military occupations, the US government is increasing terrorism. Pape is also the director and founder of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), a database of every known suicide terrorist attack from 1980 to 2008.
In 2006, a National Intelligence Estimate stated that the war in Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism. The estimate was put together by 16 intelligence agencies and was the first assessment of global terrorism since the start of the Iraq war.[31]
Beyer explains the rise in terrorism as a response to both military intervention and occupation, both recent and in the past, and 'structural violence'. Structural violence refers to economic conditions of backwardness which are attributed to the economic policies of the Western nations, the United States in particular.[32]
British Liberal Democrat politician Shirley Williams writes that the American and United Kingdom governments "must stop to think whether it is sowing the kind of resentment which is the seedbed of future terrorism."[33] The United Kingdom ambassador to Italy, Ivor Roberts, said that U.S. President Bush is "the best recruiting sergeant ever for al Qaeda."[34] The United States granted "protected persons" status under the Geneva Convention to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, an Iranian group classified by the U.S. Department of State as a terrorist organization, sparking criticism.[35] Other critics have noted that the American government has granted political asylum to several accused terrorists and organizations that seek to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime, while the American government claims to be anti-terrorist.
Hypocrisy of the Bush Administration[edit]
The alleged mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks was part of the Mujahedin who were sponsored, armed, trained and aided by the CIA to fight the Soviet Union after it intervened into Afghanistan.[36][37][38][39]
Venezuela has accused the U.S. government of having a double standard on terrorism for giving safe haven to Luis Posada Carriles.[40] The selective use term "War on Terrorism" have been commented upon by some Americans as well, including 3 star general William Odom, formerly President Reagan's NSA Director, who wrote:
"As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world. A prudent American president would end the present policy of "sustained hysteria" over potential terrorist attacks..treat terrorism as a serious but not a strategic problem, encourage Americans to regain their confidence, and refuse to let al Qaeda keep us in a state of fright."[5][41]
Misleading information[edit]
Some critics[who?] argue that some politicians supporting the "war on terror" are motivated by reasons other than those they publicly state, and critics accuse those politicians of cynically misleading the public to achieve their own ends. For instance, in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and members of his administration indicated that they possessed information which demonstrated a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Published reports of the links began in late December 1998. In January 1999, Newsweek magazine published a story about Saddam and al-Qaeda joining forces to attack U.S. interests in the Gulf Region. ABC News broadcast a story of the link between the two soon after.[42] Polls suggested that a majority of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was linked to the attacks of September 11, 2001.[citation needed] However, despite popular belief, the Bush Administration believed that there was the possibility of a potential collaboration between al-Queda and Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime following the U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan. Amnesty International Irene Khan criticized the use of pro-humanitarian arguments by Coalition countries prior to its 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing in an open letter: "This selective attention to human rights is nothing but a cold and calculated manipulation of the work of human rights activists. Let us not forget that these same governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International's reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq before the Gulf War."[43]
Torture by Proxy[edit]
The term "torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the CIA[44][45][46][47] and other US agencies have transferred civilians assumed to be terrorists, whom they captured during their efforts in the 'war on terrorism', to countries known to employ torture in order for them to be interrogated. It has been claimed that torture has been employed with the knowledge or acquiescence of US agencies (a transfer of anyone to anywhere for the purpose of torture is a violation of US law), although Condoleezza Rice (then the United States Secretary of State) stated that:[48]
"the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured."
The US programme has also prompted several official investigations in Europe, which has also actually participated in the War against Terrorism, into alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of Europe member states, including those related with the so-called 'War on Terrorism'. A June 2006 report from the Council of Europe estimated that 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ("black sites") utilised by the CIA, some located in Europe. According to the separate European Parliament report of February 2007, the CIA has conducted 1,245 flights, many of them to destinations where these alleged 'terrorists' could face torture, in violation of article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.[49]
Feminist Critique[edit]
Role of Technology[edit]
Technological evolution has precipitated a new era in conflict whereby machinery and technology are increasingly used to conduct combat. This has troubling notions for the way in which wars are fought, as technology allows for the "discursive dehumanization" of the enemy.[50] Ultimately, this means that soldiers – and similarly political elites – can distance themselves from the brutality of war through the use of technology. Cristina Masters discusses this with respect to the way individuals stationed behind computers have been "constituted as soldiers," despite the fact that they will not face "physical battle."[50] Eric Blanshard mentions this in relation to "robotocized warfare," in the War on Terror, with specific reference to the way in which drones have been used to eliminate insurgents throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan.[51]
The American military responded to the September 11 attacks with a bold technological strategy, which sought to gain intelligence, and make war less dangerous for American troops.[51] This use of technology ultimately 'othered' groups of people, as it saw the privacy and lives of ordinary Afghans as secondary to the intelligence gathering interests of the United States.[51] One of the main issues with normalizing othering is that it can lead to racist or xenophobic sentiments, as well as torture or inhumane treatment – such as in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse incident - towards the group that was othered. Furthermore, feminist interpretations see technology as the ultimate manifestation of "man's obsessive quest for knowledge," which Charlotte Hooper worries could provide new agendas for "hegemonic masculinities to colonize."[51] That is to say that technology provides a way for the masculinized military to gather intelligence, and wage war, thereby perpetuating hegemony.
The culmination of this new technology is marked by the role that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones have played in the War on Terror. The U.S. Air Force has been using "Predator" drones in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2007, but this program has now been expanded to Pakistan, where the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using it to monitor and strike "terrorist forces."[51] Despite "internal concerns" that this type of warfare produces "anti-American sentiments," it is nevertheless desirable in combating terror, because it minimizes the number of troops that are put in harm's way. There are many issues with these strikes, though, as the international community is concerned with potential damage. For instance, ethical questions to do with the impacts of civilian deaths, as well as the methods used to determine who should be attacked are raised.[51] These decisions are made outside of the realm of public transparency, and as such there is no objective evaluation of the method in selecting targets. Moreover, feminist critiques question the "discourses of technowar" that conceptualize the idea that "'high value' targets [can be eliminated], without disrupting populations."[51] Ultimately a feminist critique of military technology – and drones – provides us a way of understanding how hierarchy and patriarchy, socialize this type of warfare. Among other things, we are made aware of the effects of conflict on populations other than those "high value" terror targets.
Decreasing international support[edit]
In 2002, strong majorities supported the U.S.-led War on Terror in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, India, and Russia, according to a sample survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. By 2006, supporters of the effort were in the minority in Britain (49%), France (43%), Germany (47%), and Japan (26%). Although a majority of Russians still supported the War on Terror, that majority had decreased by 21%. Whereas 63% of the Spanish population supported the War on Terror in 2003, only 19% of the population indicated support in 2006. 19% of the Chinese population supports the War on Terror, and less than a fifth of the populations of Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan support the effort. The report also indicates that Indian public support for the War on Terror has been stable.[52] Andrew Kohut, speaking to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, noted that, and according to the Pew Research Center polls conducted in 2004, "the ongoing conflict in Iraq continues to fuel anti-American sentiments. America's global popularity plummeted at the start of military action in Iraq, and the U.S. presence there remains widely unpopular."[53]
Role of U.S. media[edit]
Researchers in the area of communication studies and political science have found that American understanding of the war on terror is directly shaped by how the mainstream news media reports events associated with the war on terror. In Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age[54] political communication researcher Jim A. Kuypers illustrated "how the press failed America in its coverage on the War on Terror." In each comparison, Kuypers "detected massive bias on the part of the press." This researcher called the mainstream news media an "anti-democratic institution" in his conclusion. "What has essentially happened since 9/11 has been that Bush has repeated the same themes, and framed those themes the same whenever discussing the War on Terror," said Kuypers. "Immediately following 9/11, the mainstream news media (represented by CBS, ABC, NBC, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post) did echo Bush, but within eight weeks it began to intentionally ignore certain information the president was sharing, and instead reframed the president's themes or intentionally introduced new material to shift the focus."
This goes beyond reporting alternate points of view, which is an important function of the press. "In short," Kuypers explained, "if someone were relying only on the mainstream media for information, they would have no idea what the president actually said. It was as if the press were reporting on a different speech." The study is essentially a "comparative framing analysis." Overall, Kuypers examined themes about 9-11 and the War on Terror that the President used, and compared them to the themes that the press used when reporting on what the president said.
"Framing is a process whereby communicators, consciously or unconsciously, act to construct a point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation to be interpreted by others in a particular manner," wrote Kuypers. These findings suggest that the public is misinformed about government justification and plans concerning the war on terror.
Others have also suggested that press coverage has contributed to a public confused and misinformed on both the nature and level of the threat to the U.S. posed by terrorism. In his book, Trapped in the War on Terror[6] political scientist Ian S. Lustick, claimed, "The media have given constant attention to possible terrorist-initiated catastrophes and to the failures and weaknesses of the government's response." Lustick alleged that the War on Terror is disconnected from the real but remote threat terrorism poses, and that the generalized War on Terror began as part of the justification for invading Iraq, but then took on a life of its own, fueled by media coverage. Scott Atran writes that "publicity is the oxygen of terrorism" and the rapid growth of international communicative networks renders publicity even more potent, with the result that "perhaps never in the history of human conflict have so few people with so few actual means and capabilities frightened so many."[55]
Media researcher Stephen D. Cooper's analysis of media criticism Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate[56] contains many examples of controversies concerning mainstream reporting of the War on Terror. Cooper found that bloggers' criticisms of factual inaccuracies in news stories or bloggers' discovery of the mainstream press's failure to adequately check facts before publication caused many news organizations to retrack or change news stories.
Cooper found that bloggers specializing in criticism of media coverage advanced four key points:
- Mainstream reporting of the war on terror has frequently contained factual inaccuracies. In some cases, the errors go uncorrected; moreover, when corrections are issued they usually are given far less prominence than the initial coverage containing the errors.
- The mainstream press has sometimes failed to check the provenance of information or visual images supplied by Iraqi "stringers" (local Iraqis hired to relay local news).
- Story framing is often problematic; in particular, "man-in-the-street" interviews have often been used as a representation of public sentiment in Iraq, in place of methodologically sound survey data.
- Mainstream reporting has tended to concentrate on the more violent areas of Iraq, with little or no reporting of the calm areas.
David Barstow won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting by connecting the Department of Defense to over 75 retired generals supporting the Iraq War on TV and radio networks. The Department of Defense recruited the retired generals to sell the war to the American public. Barstow also discovered undisclosed links between some retired generals and defense contractors. Barstow reported that "the Bush administration used its control over access of information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse".
British objections[edit]
The Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the UK, Ken McDonald, Britain's most senior criminal prosecutor, has stated that those responsible for acts of terrorism such as the 7 July 2005 London bombings are not "soldiers" in a war, but "inadequates" who should be dealt with by the criminal justice system. He added that a "culture of legislative restraint" was needed in passing anti-terrorism laws, and that a "primary purpose" of the violent attacks was to tempt countries such as Britain to "abandon our values." He stated that in the eyes of the UK criminal justice system, the response to terrorism had to be "proportionate, and grounded in due process and the rule of law":
London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered...were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, 'soldiers'. They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were fantasists. We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London there is no such thing as a war on terror. The fight against terrorism on the streets of Britain is not a war. It is the prevention of crime, the enforcement of our laws, and the winning of justice for those damaged by their infringement.[57]
Stella Rimington, former head of the British intelligence service MI5 has criticised the war on terror as a "huge overreaction", and had decried the militarization and politicization of the U.S. efforts to be the wrong approach to terrorism.[58] David Miliband, former UK foreign secretary, has similarly called the strategy a "mistake".[59][60] Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has called for Britain to end its involvement in the War in Afghanistan, describing the mission as "wholly unsuccessful and indeed counter-productive."[61]
Pejorative terms[edit]
Critics have replaced "war on terror" or related phrases with pejorative terms:
- "So-called War on Terror", due to the perceived disingenuous nature of the phrase many non-U.S. media publications have taken to referring to it as the "so-called War on Terror".[62][63][64][65][66][67][68]
- "TWAT" (The War Against Terrorism) - (twat being an offensive word in some dialects of English) used satirically by some web sites[69][citation needed]
- "War against tourism" as parodied by Justin Butcher, partly in reference to the accent of President Bush.[70]
- "War of Terror", a term used by Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat in the rodeo scene of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
- "Operation Iraqi Liberation" or "O.I.L," is often used to criticise both the euphemistic terminology used by the government for the Iraqi invasion (officially named Operation Iraqi Freedom) and the impoundment of Iraq's oil resources which is considered by some to be the real purpose of the invasion. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer actually used this term in press briefings on March 24, 2003 and April 1, 2003.[71][72]
- The War on Errorism is an album by NOFX, whose cover art also depicts President Bush as a clown.
- "War Against Some Terrorists" was suggested by the late Robert Anton Wilson, with the comment: "Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langtry."[73]
- The Chaser's War on Everything was a satirical television series broadcast on ABC TV in Australia.
- Stephen Colbert referred to it as "The Never Ending War on Everything".
See also[edit]
- 2003 Invasion of Iraq
- Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
- Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
- Black sites
- Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal
- Extraordinary rendition by the United States
- Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
- International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan
- NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
- Opposition to the Iraq War
- Opposition to the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Protests against the invasion of Afghanistan
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Unlawful combatant
- USA PATRIOT Act
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- War on Terror
- Anwar al-Awlaki
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- ^ a b Masters, Cristina (2010). Shepherd, Laura J, ed. Cyborg Soldiers and Militarised Masculinities in Gender Matters in Global Politics: A feminist introduction to International Relations. Routledge. pp. 176–186.
- ^ a b c d e f g Blanshard, Eric M (2011). Tickner, Ann J; Sjoberg, Laura, eds. The technoscience question in feminist International Relations: Unmanning the U.S. War on Terror in Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the past, present and future. Routledge. pp. 146–163.
- ^ Pew Global Attitudes Project: America's Image in the World: Findings from the Pew Global Attitudes Project
- ^ "Testimony of Andrew Kohut United States House of Representatives International Relations Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations" (PDF). Air War College - Maxwell Air Force Base. 2005-11-10. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ Kuypers, Jim A. (2006-10-28). Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7425-3653-X.
- ^ Atran, Scott (2010-10-19). Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists. Ecco Press/ HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-134490-9.
- ^ Cooper, Stephen D. (2006-06-12). Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate. Marquette Books. ISBN 0-922993-47-5.
- ^ There is no war on terror in the UK, says DPP, The Times, January 24, 2007, p.12.
- ^ Norton-Taylor, Richard (2008-10-18). "Response to 9/11 was "hugh overreaction"". The Guardian (London) (October 18). Retrieved 2008-10-22.
- ^ Berger, Julian (2009-01-15). "'War on Terror' was a mistake, says Miliband". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 15 January 2009. "democracies must respond to terrorism by championing the rule of law, not subordinating it"
- ^ Miliband, David (2009-01-15). "'War on Terror' was wrong". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 15 January 2009. "The call for a "war on terror" was a call to arms, an attempt to build solidarity for a fight against a single shared enemy. But the foundation for solidarity between peoples and nations should be based not on who we are against, but on the idea of who we are and the values we share. Terrorists succeed when they render countries fearful and vindictive; when they sow division and animosity; when they force countries to respond with violence and repression. The best response is to refuse to be cowed."
- ^ "Lawson suggests Afghan withdrawal". BBC News. 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ^ "Energy questions that will need to be answered". Liverpool Daily Post - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ "War On Terror Labelled A Disaster". Sky News - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ Harper, Tim (2007-10-23). "U.S. war tab $200 billion for next year". Toronto Star - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ "Misusing terror victims' pain to fight culture wars". The Canberra Times - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ "Mistrial in key 'terror' case". SBS World News - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ Tatchell, Peter (2007-10-23). "Rendition, the movie". London: Guardian - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ "Don't cave in to the Taliban". International Herald Tribune - Example of usage of phrase "so-called War on Terror". Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ "www.president-bush.com".[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Dramatic interventions". The Independent UK, 17 March 2004.
- ^ "Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer" (Press release). The White House. March 24, 2003.
- ^ "Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer" (Press release). The White House. April 1, 2003.
- ^ Wilson, Robert Anton (2001-09-29). "War Against Some terrorists". Robert Anton Wilson. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
Further reading[edit]
- "Wisdom, not intelligence" "Britain needs political wisdom more than the intelligence services to prevent terrorism on its shores". Khaled Diab, The Guardian, January 2008.
- "Against the War on Terror".
- Arie, Sophie and MacAskill, Ewen. "Al-Qaida would back Bush, says UK envoy". The Guardian, 21 September 2004.
- Beyer, Cornelia, "Violent Globalisms: Conflict in Response to Empire", Ashgate, 2008.
- Beyer, Anna Cornelia, "Counterterrorism and International Power Relations", IB Tauris, 2010.
- Raimondo, Justin. "We've Been Warned (The state of our union: perpetual war)". Antiwar.com, 3 February 2003.
- Taylor, Scott. Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009. ISBN 978--1-55365-292-2
- Warner, Daniel. "Perpetual War Poses a Risk to US Power". International Herald Tribune, 28 June 2002.
- Youssef, Nancy A. "More Iraqis killed by U.S. than by terror". Detroit Free Press, 25 September 2004.
- Chernus, Ira, Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
- "Myths of the War on Terrorism and Iraq". Wilson's Almanac, accessed 26 February 2005.
- "State Department Lie About Terrorism Levels Bolstered Bush Claims of Success". Capitol Hill Blue, 11 June 2004.
- Fisk, Robert. "Folly taken to a scale we haven't seen since WWII". The Independent, 11 September 2003.
- Gonzales, Patrisia and Rodriguez, Roberto. "The Fallacy of the War on Terror". Universal Press Syndicate, 12 December 2003.
- Igmade (Stephan Trüby et al., eds.), 5 Codes: Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror, Birkhäuser; 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7598-1
- Record, Jeffrey. Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (PDF). Strategic Studies Institute, December 2003.
- Khan, L. Ali. A Theory of International Terrorism (Brill, 2006).
- Edward S. Herman, "There Is No "War on Terror"", January 18, 2008.
- Human Rights First; Getting to Ground Truth: Investigating U.S. Abuses in the "War on Terror." (2004)


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Over the past few seasons, Mark Richt has had no shortage of reasons to put his fist through a wall, terrorize secretaries and assistant coaches or erupt in a news conference, as if Athens' own little Mt. Vesuvius.
He has suspended players for poor academics, poor driving habits and poor choice of herbal supplements (in or outside of brownies). Several prize recruits have been excommunicated for assorted acts of dumbness. His job security has come into question. He works in a conference where five other schools have won BCS titles. And, on a lesser note, his athletic director was fired for drunk driving.
But notice something about Mark Richt? He seldom seems stressed. He isn't storming out of news conferences when he sees a columnist he doesn't like (really?), or blathering on the radio about making progress in trying to get a guy fired (fantasy).
As Richt said Tuesday, "I don't think I'm totally Teflon, but there's not much anybody can say that can get me bent out of shape."
Richt lives in one universe.
Steve Spurrier holds his breath in the other.
It's an interesting contrast of coaches this week. Georgia plays South Carolina. Both are 5-0 and top 10 teams. But Richt clearly is enjoying the moment – and he can be seen this week in a series of humorous ESPN commercials – while Spurrier is acting like a whining, petulant second-grader, carrying on a battle with local sports columnist Ron Morris, whom he's convinced is out to get him.
Richt chuckled Tuesday when asked about Spurrier, saying, "I heard about him leaving the news conference," but he generally refrained from comment.
But Richt will tell you that he has changed. Few college coaches have had more reasons to be stressed, but he seldom shows it. (He and I had a minor flare up several years back that was blown out of proportion — geez, I really hate the media — but it was cleared up that same day.)
"I know that most criticism is pointed toward the coach, not necessarily the person," he said. "If I've ever felt something became more of a personal attack, there have been times when I've talked to people privately. Or if a guy beats up on a player more than I think he should, I'll get sensitive about that once in a while. But in the grand scheme of things, it's still momentary light affliction, like Apostle Paul talks about. It doesn't last.
"I know when my wife had cervical cancer, if that doesn't put life in perspective, what does? There are just things bigger than whether I'm the head coach at Georgia, or whether anybody thinks I'm smart or not smart, or a good coach or a bad coach. I know I've got a job to do, and I want to know that the process I go through in that job is one I can live with when I go to sleep at night."
Richt and Spurrier both have their moral compasses. Spurrier's just spins a little more.
He lost supporters with his constant enabling of former quarterback Stephen Garcia, who was "suspended" five times, yet somehow never managed to miss a game (until the university finally dismissed him). Spurrier was indignant when asked about the perception that he was soft on issues pertaining to alcohol. He told The State: "There is something that they can always pick at you about. … If the president and A.D. say, 'Man, you are too soft on that,' then they will get another coach here," he told The State.)
His recent radio vent lost other supporters.
Spurrier's objective, of course, is to unify his fan base and cultivate the us-against-the-world mentality. It's not uncommon. His power and ego ran unchecked at Florida because he was winning SEC titles and seldom was criticized.
But when somebody's constant response to any criticism becomes, "I'll just [retire and] and go to the beach," it's clear he has lost all perspective.
Richt has been through the wringer of a 6-7 season, a 7-9 record in the SEC over two years and last season's 0-2 start.
"I'm enjoying coaching more now — but, I mean, we're winning a lot more," he said.
Of criticism, he said: "When somebody critiques me, I try to filter the information, regardless of whether I think the person is mean-spirited or sweet-spirited, because the guy might be right. I may not give him credit from a pride standpoint, but sometimes there's validity to it."
It seems like a healthier perspective than threatening to quit or get somebody fired.
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• After celebration, Chipper Jones admits he was an emotional wreck
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October 5th, 2012
12:30 pm
Hey Schultz
Why don't you say that Richt and the GA program are like the Penn State program and see what Richt and all the Dawgs have to say. Unemployment line for you then!
October 6th, 2012
8:41 am
Steve has every rights to be "cocky." He is great for the SEC. He is a great plays caller.
October 6th, 2012
8:42 pm
Spurrier owned the mutts while at Florida and owns them at South Carolina.
21- O at the half – sweet.
Better put some more Div II oponents on your schedule.
October 6th, 2012
9:42 pm
"Spurrier should take lesson from Richt on handling criticism"
Richt needs to take lessons from Spurrier on how to win the big games
October 7th, 2012
12:49 am
Jeff. I'll take a journalist bashing spurrier over a can't win the big one richt anyday. spurrier now owns ga just like he did as fl coach. he's a winner whereas richt is a nice man.
October 7th, 2012
7:07 am
Hate him all you want he is a damn good coach. He has proven that at ever college he has coached at. He is intense and a winner. Look at other successful programs. Alabama, LSU, Mississippi State, and South Carolina to name a few and don't look now here comes Florida. To win you have got to play to win not hope some other team is going to help get you there.
October 7th, 2012
8:22 am
"Like I told the guys, 'The bad news is we took a whipping, but the good news is that we all took it together." – Good Saint Richt
October 7th, 2012
9:28 am
I guess it is a good thing Richt is so better than Spurrier at handling criticism. Because Spurrier owns him on the field!!!!!!! Ha!
October 7th, 2012
10:03 am
I love columnists who write a column based on telling half the story! Exactly what Morris does in Columbia, except it is not an attack against Spurrier's football, it's an attack against Spurrier's integrity. You've expressed your opinion based on half the story (incorrectly). This is exactly why the public at large is so antagonistic towards the press.
October 7th, 2012
11:28 am
Richt should take a lesson from Spurrier on coaching football.
October 7th, 2012
4:57 pm
October 7th, 2012
10:58 pm
Wow Jeff, you couldn't just admit the the dawgs got whipped on the field and out coached from the sidelines this year, you had to attack the spurrier. Are you buddies with Morris? Birds of a feather.
October 7th, 2012
11:18 pm
October 8th, 2012
5:15 am
After all that, I'll take the 6-0 coach over the 5-1 coach all day!
October 8th, 2012
6:50 am
35-7 for third straight!!! Nuff said!!!
October 9th, 2012
8:40 am
It seems that Spurrier does not need to take ANY LESSONS at all from Richt.
He delivered a pretty detailed lecture on Saturday night and then sent little Marky to sit in the corner.
October 9th, 2012
8:50 am
Georgia should have hired Spurrier in 2005.
October 9th, 2012
12:06 pm
You took too many crip journalism courses instead of obtaining an education that would afford analysis. Spurrier has a design of taking the heat off his team and putting it on himself. Richt and others are targets for criticism that moves on to his team.
October 9th, 2012
12:17 pm
"The bad news is we took a whipping, but the good news is that we all took it together."
Is Mark Richt fostering clusterflagellation, a religious practice of the most holy in ancient days?
October 9th, 2012
3:04 pm
Most of the UGA fanbase could learn how to handle a loss like their headcoach Richt.
I was wondering how the Dawg fans would react to their beatdown by the Gamecocks and the results didn't surprise me.
QB Murray's house being vandalized is just plan stupid and juvenile. Much like that Bama fan poisoning the famous Auburn oak trees — all because of a football game.
There are a ton of morons in the southeast and most of those morons are the diehard football idiots that scream, "S..E..C….S..E..C" because their particular university (the one they never attended) team stinks.
I could NOT WAIT to get out of the southeast and back west where there are a lot more educated people that don't tie the quality of their life to a football team's winning rocord.
Keep your S..E..C if that's what it means to you.
And try to get a life sometime in your life.
October 9th, 2012
6:28 pm
Richt doesn't respond because he doesn't really care. Since Rciht obviously doesn't want to coach, he should do the honorable thing and quit. We're not getting much for the 3 mil a year.
October 9th, 2012
7:08 pm
Knowing younr starting rb has failed a drug test a drug test and deciding to not "find out" till the next week is not being of higher morals than other SEC coaches.


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27 out of 30 people found this review helpful:A Good Show that will leave you Breathless!So what makes Glass Mask special? It's the drama! This series never fails to leave you on the edge of your seat, demanding for more. Maya, the main character of the story, is absolutely relatable and extremely loveable. You can't help but cheer for her along the way. All you fans who have watched Skip Beat need to see this one. Although both stories are based around acting, the plot of Glass Mask ...Read more
20 out of 22 people found this review helpful:Glass Mask Episode 14The truth come out...the series is very deep, rooted with themes of betrayal, and passion. I did not think I would enjoy it as much as I have...if you want to see some drama with a quality story line, check out Glass Mask Masumi plays an intricate role but the balance between her passion and dedication to her acting is really put to the test. Its no wonder how they are able to continually ...Read more
Wow... it's rare for an anime to have this much impact.Only two anime have made an emotional impact on me. I cannot believe the detail and complexity of the storyline. I highly recommend this anime to everyone who loves drama and romance. The story was perfectly put-together with every element of a perfect drama. 5 stars for making me watch anime all day (which I haven't done in a LONG time!)Read more
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Good Anime, but.....it was a good anime but u lost interest after a while. not just that but the ending, well it felt like it didn't end. like it wasn't finished yet. the way they ended the show was really bad. How would u say it? ah yes... a cliffhanger. it just kinda left u there, aside from the ending and not keeping ur interest the ENTIRE time it was pretty ok. If u like long old animes then u can watch this, ...Read more
Simply Innocent & Meaningful.This Anime has to be 1 of my favorites! >.< It's kinda rare nowadays when you find such an innocent & meaningful Anime. One of the things that I absolutely adore in this Anime is the way they tell you to "Never give up." And to "Chase Your Dreams." As cliche as it sounds they really do want you to know that through this beautifully composed Anime. ^O^ The way they show how passionate Maya is ...Read more
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Taylor Hall is off the IR and headed for OKC. I don't know how many players in AHL history have had Taylor Hall's skill set, but it is not a high number.
Hall is likely to play top line LW, but if the season includes a lot of AHL at-bats there's a chance he moves over to center. Jason Gregor mentioned today that Hall was told by coach Todd Nelson he'd be playing alongside the Nuge and Eberle this weekend.
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When I first hear about the new firm Your Paparazzi for Hire, which stages public-ambush encounters to make you "feel like a superstar," I get a bit queasy. Just how celeb-obsessed are we? Apparently, very: According to founder Lance McBrayer, Bostonians are lining up. Packages start at $500 for 30 minutes with four pretend paps (plus photos and a commemorative magazine cover), and go up to $2,500 for two hours of bombardment, limo service, and actors playing bodyguards and publicists.
[sidebar]Sounds impressive, but I have my doubts about how realistic such a gimmick could be. I imagine a few hairdressers with disposable cameras. Awkward. Turns out, McBrayer's operation is much more high-tech than that.
THE EXPERIENCE A few days before go-time, I answer a questionnaire about favorite shows (Gossip Girl), recent vacations (Palm Springs), and frenemies (this one stays blank—I'm a classy girl). McBrayer recommends bringing a handful of friends to play entourage, so I enlist two coworkers plus my friend Max, a real-life fabulous publicist, who'll portray my make-believe fabulous publicist. My outfit, of course, must reek of manufactured nonchalance. After an Us Weekly tutorial, I don Wayfarers, an oversize Chloé bag, and a silk scarf. A venti Starbucks latte completes the look. Alas, CVS is fresh out of alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelets.
Our route will take us from the Pru to the patio of Newbury Street's Cafeteria Boston, which has hosted authentic tabloid targets Gisele and Tom. As soon as we hit Boylston, four photogs, two reporters, and a videographer attack. They look and sound the part, with industrial-grade tape recorders and enormous cameras, and fire off question after question: "Will you be judging America's Next Top Model this season?" "Is it true you two are engaged?" Max barks, "No comment!"
When I pause to indulge them with a pose on the corner of Gloucester, I realize: We're causing a frenzy. Necks are craned. Camera phones are in the air. Traffic has stopped. It all couldn't seem more real. At Cafeteria, one last paparazzo sneaks up from behind some shrubbery, but vanishes after a warning from Max: "You got your shot. Just let us eat!" The gossip-hungry pedestrians take longer to scatter.
THE VERDICT I'm surprised to say that the experience is incredibly fun, and even a bit exhilarating. It's also a hilarious memory to share with friends—though it certainly helps to be in on the joke.
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1. Pressing your arms flat against your sides guarantees they'll look flabby. Instead, position them slightly away from your body, at an angle—they'll look slimmer that way. And if you're feeling extra sassy, putting your hands on your hips is even more flattering.
2. It's getting to be a cliché, but seriously: Smile with your eyes as well as your mouth. (Do this by pretending you're on the verge of laughter as the photographer snaps.)
3. When it's a seated shot, scoot all the way to the edge of the chair so your thighs and rear don't expand and spread. That's one look that doesn't work for anybody!
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James Bond, Jr. is wanted for murder. Bond is a black male, 5 foot 10 and around 220 pounds.
Terry Waugh is 28 years old. He's 6 feet tall and close to 160 pounds. He's wanted on multiple counts of child molesting.
Billy Jack Brown is 38 years old and wanted on multiple counts of child molesting. He is a while male, 5 foot 10 and weights 180 pounds.
Alfredo Bolanos is 5 foot 6 inches and weights 160 pounds. Balanos is a Hispanic male, wanted on 3 counts of rape.
Manuel Murillo-Miramont is a Hispanic male wanted for strangulation, criminal deviate conduct.
In Elkhart County Johnathan McCarey is wanted for voluntary manslaughter. He is 30 years old, a black male, 5 foot 10 and weights 220 pounds.
Jerome Green is also wanted out of Elkhart County for child molesting.
In Berrien County Anthony Duane Jones is wanted for aggravated assault.
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Farmington Hills, Mich. (June 19, 2013)---Botsford Hospital's next Walk with a Doc, a free wellness event, will take place at noon on Thursday, July 18, 2013. Guest speaker Dr. Annette Carron, geriatrics specialist, will present on understanding and improving memory to sharpen your mind and boost your brainpower. Location: Heritage Park Nature Center, Farmington Hills. West side of Farmington Road, between 10 & 11 Mile Roads. Meets rain or shine. Call to register: 877-477-Doc1 (3621), option 1.
Botsford Hospital is a multi-specialty 330 bed hospital and verified trauma center located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The campus also houses an imaging center and a comprehensive care cancer center. Botsford Hospital is also home to an extensive medical education program and is part of Michigan State University's statewide campus system. Botsford Hospital each year cares for approximately 16,000 inpatients and more than 60,000 emergency and trauma patients with a team of 2,500 employees, 300 volunteers and more than 600 physicians. A not-for-profit hospital, Botsford provided almost $10.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year.
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A handy reference guide to the rich pantheon of Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. This pocket dictionary highlights thirty-five major gods and goddesses and shows how they function in family groupings. Readers can find deities like Atum and Ptahwho feature in myths explaining the creation of the universe. They can journey across the sky with the great sun god Ra-Horakhty and his cohorts and enter the underworld of Osiris. Powerful goddesses such as Isis, Hathor and the ferociouslioness-headed Sekhmet are featured, as are the deities who protected the pharaoh, and those who were responsible for mummification and funerary rituals. All the entries are fully cross-referred and an A-Z contents list enables the reader to find easily aparticular god or goddess. Each one is illustrated with colour photographs of paintings, papyri and sculptures depicting the deity and the hieroglyphs of his or her name. The appearance, attributes, roles and responsibilities of each god and goddess arebr
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This is a commercial for a LA Chiropractor that shows him popping peoples backs and necks and chests. Plus, he looks a little creepy.
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The secret of packing a suit coat is not to avoid wrinkles, as you might think. Instead, the secret is to make sure the wrinkles end up in places where wrinkles won't be noticed.
Why does this relate to IT? Because it's a lesson in perfectionism and prioritization. We all want our systems to be perfect, but we know that we don't have the time or the budget to make that possible. So the secret of having our systems appear to be more successful is to make sure that the system limitations end up in places where the limitations won't be noticed.
Sounds obvious, doesn't it? Then why don't we do it? Think about the typical everyday user of one of your systems. For online systems (web or not), what screens does that person spend most of their day using? For batch systems, what reports does the person use the most? Have you focused the majority of your systems improvement effort on making things better for these most common uses of your systems? On improving their usability? On improving their system performance and reliability? That's where the productivity payback is, because that's where most of the business labor goes: into the systems that are used the most.
But a common trap in IT is to get distracted by the so-called "corner cases," the very uncommon situations where due to a certain combination of variables, weird buggy things happen in software. We tend to spend an inordinate amount of IT dollars on fixing these problems, "removing the wrinkles," when we might be better off in some cases just moving the wrinkles to where they won't be noticed.


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Virat Kohli has matured, is a good prospect: Sehwag
"Virat kohli played really well. I think he is showing that he has matured as a batsman. He is not throwing his wicket. He is a quick learner," said Sehwag, after India beat Bangladesh by 87 runs in a Group B game.
Kohli remained unbeaten on 100 and added 203 for the third wicket with his Delhi team mate Sehwag (175) to propel India to a mammoth 370 for four. Bangladesh managed 283 for nine. Kohli, who led India to under-19 World Cup win in 2008, also became the first Indian to score a century on Cup debut. The century was also Kohli's second unbeaten century against the neighbours.
Sehwag praised Kohli saying ,"He is a good prospect for India. He has got five hundreds, and a hundred on his World Cup debut," said Sehwag.
On his discussions with Kohli in the middle, Sehwag said: "Whenever we discuss things I say don't throw your wicket. In the last Champions Trophy, he had thrown away his wicket against Pakistan and since then he has got five hundreds. So sometimes a small mention can make a whole lot of difference."
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text: Shortly after Jared Loughner allegedly opened fire in the parking lot of a Tucson grocery store last January, we saw much hand-wringing about the threat of violence against the government. In fact, violence against government officials is actually pretty rare. But just three days before Loughner's rampage, police in Framingham, Mass., raided the home of 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. Stamps wasn't the target of the drug raid. Police were after the son of Stamps' girlfriend, and actually apprehended him outside the home. They raided the house anyway. Stamps, who was unarmed and broke no laws, was shot and killed by a police officer. By my count, he's at least the 46th innocent person killed in a botched drug raid. Every politician in Washington condemned the Loughner shootings, and rightly so. But nearly every politician in Washington supports the laws and policies that led to the death of Eurie Stamps.-- Radley Balko continues his lonely crusade documenting the ongoing militarization of America's police forces.


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Thanks to Demi Lovato 's fans, better known as Lovatics, Monday's trending topics on Twitter included the hashtags #HappyLovaticDay and #2YearsUnbroken, as well as the phrase "Lovatics Are Proud of You Demi." Lovatics showed much love to the singer for having reached the two-year anniversary of her departure from a treatment facility. It was on January 28, 2011 that she left the facility, where she got help for bipolar disorder, anorexia, bulimia, self-harming and substance abuse.
The love wasn't lost on Demi, who chimed in on Twitter with her appreciation. "Thanks for the trending topic!! You guys are incredible. I love you all!!" Demi tweeted to her 11.6 million plus followers. On her page, the singer tweeted her amazement at the worldwide support, commenting, "The fact that #2YearsUnbroken is a TT right now is.... incredible. :P."
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State and federal wildlife officials in Georgia announced an undercover operation that involved about 80 wildlife violators and about 980 violations.
Some suspects in this case could also face federal charges.
The four-year investigation targeted poachers in North Carolina and Georgia.
In Georgia, eight defendants are facing a total of 136 state charges.
Officers infiltrated poaching circles to document violations including bear baiting, illegal take of bears, deer and other wildlife.
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The Dodgers and The Giants Are It Again!
Most of the Baseball fans in this area are fans of either the Dodgers or the Giants. This is without a doubt the greatest rivalry in baseball. This rivalry had been well-established before both teams moved to the West Coast. However, it has become bigger now than it was then.
At the present time, the Dodgers are the team with the best talent, and with a larger fan base. They pay their players much more than the Giants do, and they have a more talented roster. However, in my opinion the Giants are much better managed organization. They do not spend as much money as the other teams, but they consistently compete for the championship.
They are managed by Bruce Bouchy, who most people consider it be the best of the baseball managers. He seems to provide his teams with the right amount of motivation and discipline, and he gets the best performance out of most of them, again, they do not always have the best players, but they always had the toughest.
The Dodgers, on the other hand have a bloated payroll and a bunch of malcontents. The person who could be their best player, Matt Kemp, signed a huge guaranteed contract, and has generally underperformed since that time. He did suffer from some injuries, but even when he was healthy, did not appear that he was motivated enough to play as well as he could.
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Calorie Restriction of Laboratory Mice: Good for Mice and Sometimes for Their Parasites
Presented by: Deborah Kristan, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos
Health benefits of long-term calorie restriction (CR) of laboratory animals are well-documented, ranging from decreased incidence of disease to increased lifespan. One physiological benefit of CR is enhanced immune function when tested using antigens or mitogen stimulation.
Fewer studies of laboratory mice have used intact parasites to test immune function after long-term CR of the host. In these studies, despite similar or enhanced immune function, CR hosts were more susceptible to intact parasite infection than ad libitum fed hosts.
Would this observation be consistent for additional helminth parasites and among different mouse strains? We tested effects of CR on susceptibility of laboratory mice to three helminth parasites (results for two are still in the pilot phase); we used two strains of laboratory mice for one of these parasites.
We found that infection outcomes varied with parasite species and between laboratory mouse strains, despite using similar CR protocols in all experiments.
Given that the relationship between parasite susceptibility and host CR is variable in a controlled laboratory setting, making predictions for effects of food availability and parasite infection of wild host-parasite populations will be challenging.
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CHENEY, Wash. -- The Cheney family who lost their roof in Monday's wind storm said they are surprised and grateful at the number of people who have come forward offering to help them.
The Marlin family scrambled to find a temporary fix after the wind ripped the tin roof right off the top of their trailer home. An early estimate to fix the roof was $1,100, money the Marlins do not have.
The Red Cross gave the family $500 for materials needed for repairs, but the family did not expect the countless calls they received from people offering their assistance.
The family used a tarp for cover their home immediately following the wind storm, but with another wave of wet weather on the horizon they knew they would need a more permanent fix.
By noon on Tuesday, the Marlins had a good start on fixing their roof, and the resources to finish the job.
Jarms True Value Hardware store in Cheney offered to give the family an additional $500 of credit to buy building materials right away.
The store owner said the family may reimburse the store at their own convenience, as they can afford it.
A fund has been established for the Marlins at the Cheney Federal Credit Union.