You donāt mention, and Iām pretty sure youāve not responded to any time someone points this out; the first Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction to get us into that war, then his son felt some obligation to follow up, and literally joked about not being able to find the weapons. Cheney handled the torturing. It was Obama who finally switched to finding Bin Laden as a police action, with some restraints on the āpolice officersā, but thatās pretty hard to manage from the other side of the world, and of course he knows that.
I watched that history, then read Michael Mooreās review of the movie āZero Dark Thirtyā, then watched the movie, a dramatization of the facts. My wife had to stop watching before the important turn of events. The movie begins with brutal depictions of the lies and the international laws we broke in how we treated prisoners.
Then, there is a scene where the CIA people are in a meeting room, the talk is about how they arenāt getting the backup of the government to torture anymore, they are on their own to find the perpetrators. Itās a pretty boring scene, and I would have missed the significance if I hadnāt read the review. Throughout the movie, mostly set in the Mideast, news plays in the background, so you see when Obama is elected, but the movie doesnāt show you a specific change in the orders, you have to watch for it.
So, thatās what happened. The Bush family, a powerful, and corrupt political machine, almost turned us into a country that uses torture as a normal part of politics. If we had continued, the rest of the world would have done even more than they were, and some still do. Our checks and balances are hanging by a thread right now. The world watches as we fight it out, picking a leader that is openly racist, then one that is sort of trying to recognize heās an old white man who doesnāt get it.
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Another comment where you skip over years of history of how we stayed too long, creating terrorists by our actions. The citizens there started out expressing their new found freedoms and we helped suppress them. They asked for schools, we gave them weapons and training.
Hereās a taste of that
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