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JonLP24
(29,322 posts)malaise
(268,942 posts)PERIOD
watoos
(7,142 posts)They showed thousands of people protesting and called them Guaido supporters when in fact they were Maduro backers.
Trump told people not to vote for Hillary because she would get us involved in foreign conflicts, just like Trump is trying to do in Venezuela.
Hav
(5,969 posts)that anyone could seriously think that laughing at questions or saying I was too young to witness these events constitute an argument. The absurdity of laughing in response to questions concerning war crimes alone were clear signs of ignorance and insecurity.
watoos
(7,142 posts)it means I am scared shitless.
malaise
(268,942 posts)You know what's worse - not one US media house will show this
Skittles
(153,150 posts)yes, that gal is dumber than a rock but the fact that Bush Inc was never held accountable for their war crimes helped to create the situation we have today.......some of the SAME people are back
malaise
(268,942 posts)Correct is right - war crimes no longer mean what they are - as in the slaughter of innocent people.
Wrong is wrong and war crimes are war crimes but because they fulfill special interests' agendas, politicians on all sides are not calling them out. Foreign policy has a way of destroying empires.
Until the war criminals are treated as pariahs, this shit will continue.
I am sick of folks on this planet.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
and The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
Chapter and verse since Jimmy Carter crossed paths with the Safari Club,
Its Big Oil to the Rescue or the Seven Sisters Escape Justice Once Again.