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发帖数: 11530 | 1 George W. Bush Didn’t Keep Us Safe
Paul Blumenthal
Sat, September 11, 2021, 7:00 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-w-bush-didn-t-120000689.html | W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 2 So f sick:
"Harvard- and Yale-educated lawyers in the Justice Department began crafting
legal justifications to create an illegal torture regime and an illegal
surveillance state. The law would be bent to allow the U.S. to enter the “
dark side.” Innocents would be swept up in these “methods” to be tortured
, crucified, water-boarded, psychologically assaulted, sodomized, raped and
beaten to death. Others, including wedding parties, small children and at
least four U.S. citizens, would die by distantly piloted drones as Bush and
his successors sought to cross names off their “Kill List.”" | W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 3 "But the need to fulfill our myth of regeneration through violence could not
be met by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These wars ultimately failed
because they served no real purpose for the American public other than the
need to exact immediate revenge. And our leaders, starting with Bush but
including Barack Obama and Trump, repeatedly lied about them, as revealed by
the Afghanistan Papers.
These failures weren’t just a loss for Americans yearning for some sort of
resolution to the 9/11 attacks. They were enormously deadly. They left
behind not only tens of thousands of dead and wounded Americans but also
hundreds of thousands of dead Afghans and Iraqis, whose lives are worth no
more or less than ours. That includes the lives of the last 13 U.S. soldiers
to die in Afghanistan, some of whom were babies on 9/11, on Aug. 26, and
the lives of the 10 people, including seven children, killed by a U.S. drone
strike three days later in response to those soldiers’ deaths. Even more
people died from the wars’ repercussions after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
’s military, disbanded by the imperial U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority
, joined forces with al Qaeda in Iraq and then mutated into the Islamic
State, wreaking havoc across the Middle East and creating a mass migration
of millions of refugees fleeing for their lives.
The ultimate effect of all this violence, as many authors are now cataloging
in books such as “Reign of Terror,” “Management of Savagery” and “The
End of the Myth,” among others, has been what King described as that “
demonic, destructive suction tube” blowing in reverse. Just as our Cold War
foreign policy led to the U.S. funding bin Laden, ultimately blowing back
on 9/11, our post-9/11 turn to violence blew back, too. Within the U.S., it
created a regenerated, anti-democratic far-right led by the reality TV
fabulist Trump and the Republican Party he has come to dominate." | W***n
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