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Blog Entries by Peter Van Buren from 03/2012

We Take Care of Our Own: Eric Holder and the End of Rights

| Posted 03.06.2012
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No more clever wordplay (enhanced interrogations, "patriot" act, targeted killing, kinetic operations) but a simple declaration that the U.S. government will kill its own citizens when it wishes to.

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Happy Ninth Anniversary Iraq Invasion!

| Posted 03.21.2012
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Just like with my own wedding anniversary, I'm a few days late recognizing the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, but sincere in marking the occasion none the less.

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