It is clearly true that allowing full revelations of all the criminality surrounding the Iraq war would increase the risk that not only American soldiers face, but that we all face. Well, like it or not, that is the ugly legacy of corporate America’s pathological dream of a global empire based on unilateral illegal wars of occupation carried out over the last 30 years or so. For the war profiteer Cheney, echoed by his fan club, to say these deluded policies keep us safe is on the order of some of the most septic cynicism ever spoken by a high official of any government. To add bitterness to pain, we now have President Obama perpetuating Cheney’s necrotic tripe.
I have to wonder how long Americans will tolerate being told by criminals to grow up and that being an adult means accommodating evil. We must never forget that if we accept these craven rationales we become complicit to the crimes they seek to conceal.
I suppose we should brace ourselves, because if our president and the press are any indication of the strength of the values of ordinary Americans we may be in for a prolonged period of getting up close and personal with varieties of evil most of us cannot even begin to imagine. After all, Cheney was in the White House running our government for eight interminable years which reveals a poor thin sort of intolerance where evil is concerned on the part of most Americans and their political leaders. The main stream press appears to be permanently besotted by him. Republicans, when they can break away from their group hug with Limbaugh, follow him around like prematurely weaned puppies.
There is only one way to end all this: Americans must understand their country is at risk, that they are governed by criminals and then take away their power. If we fail in this, there is no crime not to be written on the face of U.S. imperialism, no bottom to our descent into the Bush administration’s malevolent abyss.
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