Rebecca Gordon | Trump's Recycling Program, War Crimes and War Criminals, Old and (Potentially) New



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Donald Trump with James Mattis. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/San Francisco Chronicle)
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "A barely noticed anniversary slid by on March 20th. It's been 15 years since the United States committed the greatest war crime of the twenty-first century: the unprovoked, aggressive invasion of Iraq."
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