That's right CarolC. They weren't reporting about the phone calls from Contra HQ in San Salvador to Vice President Bush's office prior to the Iran/Contra scandal, despite being presented with the phone records by the Pax Christi Institute's lawyers, who eventually filed suit against the US government over the US' illegal activities in Central America at the time.

There is a reason why the US refuses to join with the international community's call for international courts with international jurisdiction for this very sort of military adventurism. Because it would hold the US military industrial establishment accountable for the suffering and damage they cause to--yes, other guest, innocent civilians.

Opposing government policy is a civic duty as well as a constitutionally protected right in a functioning, healthy democracy, when one believes the policy to be dangerously wrong.

Not only is there a strong peace movement coalescing right now to oppose US and UK actions in Afghanistan, there are also militarists who oppose these actions as dangerously wrong. Take away the rights of the citizenry to disagree with the government and air these concerns, and we are exactly what we claim to be fighting.