Disorder and the GOP
Notably totally absent from the CPAC conference and pretty much on the campaign trail everywhere is anyone of prominence from the Bush Administration. They lost the White House and their disasterous foreign policy and murderous rampages in Iraq had a lot to do with that. To this date they have not come clean with how they manipulated press and intelligence to con the country into launching a massive war which started the debt spirol. They demonized peace activists, they tried to crush political dissent and used every old hat trick of ridicule and intimidation and co-opting religious figures to compel a unified war time front. They glorified military, they drummed up phony patriotism, they demonized friends and turned them into enemies. It wouldn't help to have any of them around. I did see one guy who was all over the talking heads shows, a Republican lobbyist who I use to see sitting front and center at Saint Stephens catholic church in DC who is a notorious Torture advocate prancing around from one private party to the next at CPAC. Still, no one has been held accountable for the gratutious slaughter of a million Iraqis and those secret rendition torture sites and open denial of all civil rights without habeus corpus rights in places like Guantanamo. No one was held accountable but the lowly Lindy military Abu Ghraib guard and her motley crew- as if no one above her set the tone or gave the orders to engage in humiliation strategies in the playbook.
There has to be a full Truth and Reconciliation in this country over this war. It is over now, but it has to be analyzed and people have to come clean on why they did it- chips falling where they may. Because the distrust and animosity pervades modern political life to such a degree that anyone who profited off this war is tainted in the eyes of many. To get past the truly partisan rancor there should be a truth and reconciliation commision here.
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