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2007: The Year in Evidence

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James Madison and George Mason wanted impeachment in the Constitution in case a president ever pardoned someone for a crime that he himself was associated with. They did get impeachment into the Constitution. Nancy Pelosi removed it in 2007.

ONGOING AND WORSENING OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

Lost in the surge hype and the media's endless demand that we cease caring about Iraq is the worsening crisis that was more heavily reported in early and mid 2007:

ACLU Releases Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/21207

More Iraqis Flee As Figure Tops Four Million: UNHCR
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/26221

Ignorance of Iraqi death toll no longer an option
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/27066

Report says war on terror is fueling al Qaeda
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/27539

2007 Oct 7 Towards Sustainable Security: Oxford Research Group International Security Report 2007
http://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/books/ar07.php

UN Report on Iraq Details an "Ever-Deepening" Crisis
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/27657

Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew UN Mandate for Occupation
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29502

WAR CRIMES

This is one of the harder topics for Americans to discuss by name, yet 2007 yielded a bumper crop of evidence of war crimes:

2007 May 4 Army Surgeon General's pentagon report on declining morale and war crimes
http://armymedicine.army.mil/news/mhat/mhat.html

US Attack on Iraqi Peace Parliamentarian
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/16887

US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/17011

'Shocking' video: Shi'a Iraqi soldiers beat Sunnis as US trainers watch
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/17779

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