By funding Osama Bin Laden’s operations, training camps, weaponry and political influence from 1979 (even before Russia invaded Afghanistan), Robert Gates personally gave us our principal enemy in the “War on Terror.”

The Act could define as a terrorist act any activity causing a business classified as an “animal enterprise” to suffer a profit loss—even if such financial decline is caused by peaceful protests, boycotts, media campaigns or leafleting.

Iraq’s mortality rate in the year before the invasion was 5.5 deaths per 1,000 people; in the post-invasion period it was 13.3 deaths per 1,000. The difference between these rates was used to calculate “excess deaths.” - Washington Post

I am Sam Lwin, an ex-Marine, a conscientious objector and an anti-war activist from the first Gulf war. I would like to say a few words about the connection between 9/11 and war.”

“It’s just a total rollback of everything this country has stood for.” “Why did 9/11 happen on George Bush’s watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen”?