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Outrage.
Pure, unbridled outrage.
It was well deserved and well needed when bushco was in power (not that they are completely out of power now).
But with the election of Obama, and with Dems now in power, and the "let's not look back but look forward" mantra slowly seeping in - the cries for justice and an end to the past and current transgressions of our government falling to a whisper, the outrage here has seemed to undergo a relative decline.
Don't' get me wrong. I'm glad there is talk of investigation into torture. We don't do that. Thank you Obama for saying so. And maybe I'm not listening hard enough but I hear little about the wrongs of preemptive attacks on other nations. I hear little about prosecution for those who lied this nation and some nations of the world into an unnecessary war against Iraq. I hear little anymore about the tens of thousands that died needlessly at our nation's hands. I hear very little these days about prosecuting those responsible.
I remember when it was happening. The posts here. "Don't do it George!" was a fucking mantra before the freedom bombs started falling. I remember the outrage here as the cries of millions around the world were ignored, and the false premises shouted by the media as the attack began. I remember the pictures posted here soon afterward. Death on a grand scale thanks to the liars in office, drawing artificial deadlines and shouting "9*11" at the top of their lungs. And it went on for months and years. And it goes on today.
I remember the alert levels. I remember the terrorizing of the public at the hands of the bush regime and the media. I remember the fear-mongering and the finger-pointing. I remember the push-back here. DU as one of the early and lone voices.
And I don't see it much anymore.
Don't see the anger and the call for justice much anymore.
Maybe me being away for days and weeks at a time now, I've missed some of it.
And we can investigate torture until our faces turn blue or until most forget. But we still are not investigating, to much of a meaningful degree, the lies of the government before, during and after 9*11. Before, during and after (not quite to after yet, are we?) the bloody attack on Iraq.
And we should be. So many dead for those lies.
And the outrage here, just seems to have fallen into the abyss.
Mushroom clouds over American cities? He's got 'em? We know where they are? People should watch what they say?
Have we all just forgotten?
Rant off/
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