02090nam a22002537a 4500 20210924084833.0 210924b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780805079692 Aloy English 23 956.7044 BREI Jeremy Brecher 274 In the name of democracy American war crimes in Iraq and beyond New York Metropolitan Books 2005 xiv,332p. PB 23.5x15.5cm A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge—photographs from Abu Ghraib; accounts of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and residential neighborhoods; secret government reports defending unilateral aggression—Americans have begun an agonizing reappraisal of the Iraq war and the way in which their government has conducted it. Drawing on a wide range of documents—from the protocols of the Geneva Convention to FBI e-mails about prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay to executive-branch papers justifying the circumvention of international law—In the Name of Democracy examines the legality of the Iraq war and the occupation that followed. Included in this powerful investigation are eyewitness accounts, victim testimonials, statements by soldiers turned resisters and whistle-blowers, interviews with intelligence insiders, and contributions by Mark Danner and Seymour Hersh. The result is a controversial, chilling anthology that explores the culpability of officials as well as the responsibilities of ordinary citizens, and for the first time squarely confronts the matter of American impunity. Iraq War 275 Iraq War 275 War Crimes 276 BRECHER (Jeremy) 277 CUTLER (Jill) 278 SMITH (Brendan) 279 ddc GF 216365 216365 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 956.7044 BREI GF03439 2021-09-24 00:00:00 2021-09-24 GF