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WMD, Nuns and Nukes.
Title:
WMD, Nuns and Nukes.
Author:
Strabala, William.
ISBN:
9780875864488
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. A Look into the Past from the Future -- Chapter 2. If This Be Treason -- Chapter 3. Another Lie, Another War, Another Protest -- Chapter 4. A Question of Values: Why Are the Nuns in Jail? -- Chapter 5. Rendering unto Caesar, or Being Rendered? -- Chapter 6. Of Popes, Prophets, Pulpits, Patriots, Presidents and Political Puppets -- Chapter 7. And Nothing but the Truth -- Chapter 8. Of Human Angels and Women Mayors -- Sister Ardeth Platte, OP -- Sister Carol Gilbert, OP -- Sister Jacqueline Hudson, OP -- Chapter 9. Nuns and Other Mothers Who Teach Their Children -- Chapter 10. In the Wreckage of 9/11 -- Chapter 11. The Political Coup in America Took Place in Iraq -- Chapter 12. Uh-Oh: The Coup's Thought-Police -- Chapter 13. Letters Home: We Killed the Father to Feed the Son -- Chapter 14. More Letters Home: These from "Bad Ass" Nuns -- Sister Ardeth Platte, OP -- Sister Jacqueline Hudson, OP -- Chapter 15. Figures from Iraq -- Chapter 16. Iraq: Killing Field for the War between Terrorists -- Chapter 17. Three Nuns Knocking on the Weapons- gate of WMD -- Chapter 18. Meanwhile, Back at the WMD Ranch -- Chapter 19. America as a Twisted Theocracy -- Chapter 20. Of Traitors and Traders: Presidential Armies Swapped for Presidential Nukes -- Chapter 21. WMD Companies Get Back in Line for Seconds -- Chapter 22. Vive La France, Vive Le Carlyle, Vive Le U.N., Vive Saddam -- Afterword: Reflections from Eisenhower -- Appendix A. Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares II -- Appendix B. The Nuremberg Principles.
Abstract:
Three nuns were arrested in 2002 and sent to jail for protesting against America's own nuclear WMDs - even as the Bushites were seizing on "WMD" as a rationale for starting the war in Iraq. Who is truly sabotaging US national security?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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