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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
                 - Ghandi

Anti-war film 'Body of War' roils emotions
AMERICAN-STATESMAN | March 14, 2008
When national media celebrity Phil Donahue, University of Texas film professor Ellen Spiro and Iraq war veteran Tomas Young resolved to make an anti-war documentary, they targeted hearts over minds.

Military Women Report Harassment
The Associated Press | March 14, 2008
One-third of women in the military and 6 percent of men said they were sexually harassed, according to the latest Pentagon survey on the issue.

Can we be anti-war but pro-troops?
OpEdNews.com | March 13, 2008
Nuremberg Tribunal (1950) states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."

Opposition to Iraq war is divided after 5 years
USA Today | March 13, 2008
Five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bree Tease is trying to balance the obligations she feels to Iraqis and to the children whose needs she sees every day in her fourth-grade class.

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