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RELEASED. MAURICE PAPON, 92, the highest ranking French civilian ever jailed for Nazi war crimes; from prison; because of old age and poor health; in Paris...
...ability to hire and fire 170,000 departmental employees at will. He insists this is the only way for efficient and proactive governance - hinting broadly that any detour from this blueprint amounts to a tacit surrender to terrorism. Meanwhile, Democrats - and representatives for the roughly 600,000 civilian Defense Department employees who currently work under existing union labor rules, and whose status could be affected by any changes leveled at new HSD staff - are fighting him tooth and nail...
...advocate and practitioner of human rights throughout the world, I can confidently assert that Israel’s record on human rights is among the best, especially among nations that have confronted comparable threats. Though far from perfect, Israel has shown extraordinary concern for avoiding civilian casualties in its half-century effort to protect its civilians from terrorism. Jordan killed more Palestinians in a single month than Israel has between 1948 and the present...
...call Iraq’s agreement yet another empty assurance, the turn of events is far more promising than any blank check resolution giving the go-ahead to his military. An invasion today would lead to massive casualties among the already-suffering Iraqi people, even worse than the appalling civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Furthermore, an invasion today would handicap this administration in fulfilling its duties in the war on terrorism still being waged worldwide. Afghanistan is far from rebuilt, its government is still weak, and Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are still at large. And with popular opinion...
Political expediency is not a satisfactory reason for working around the U.N. Military conflict even in the age of so-called precision weapons has a tremendous human cost, which is clear when civilian casualties of all peoples are counted equally. As in Afghanistan, in the discussion of the planned invasion of Iraq, the question of the number of expected Iraqi casualties has not even been raised. Until that question is discussed and the real cost of war—including precious foreign lives as well as precious American ones—can be considered, nobody should be inclined to support...