ACLU: Massive Pentagon effort conceals human costs of war


	ACLU: Massive Pentagon effort conceals human costs of war

masbury

7-3-2008 12:53 AM

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masbury says:

ACLU charges unprecedented effort to "control and suppress information about the human cost" of the wars

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7-3-2008 3:07 PM

sillysam

Seeing things in the shadows again I see

7-3-2008 5:14 PM

ratilfar

What shadows? Their bringing things to light! Are you incapable of questioning your preconceptions? Are non convenient like kryptonite to you or something?

7-3-2008 6:46 PM

masbury

What's your point, Sam? If you see factual inaccuracies, go after them. But idle ridicule adds nothing to debate.

7-3-2008 9:27 PM

aklimento

War is the crime and to conduct it you have to break one law after another, twist Constitution and keep the people quite. It was already in the history and not once, isn't it?

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