Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Did Donald Trump Pardon a War Criminal?" video.

  1. Thomas, why do you continue to push this partisan garbage designed to divide-and-conquer, when the crimes of Empire are bipartisan? Read “The Guardian” article of August 31, 2012: “Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers” Pay special attention to the first two paragraphs: “The Obama administration's aggressive, full-scale whitewashing of the "war on terror" crimes committed by Bush officials is now complete. Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the closing without charges of the only two cases under investigation relating to the US torture program: one that resulted in the 2002 death of an Afghan detainee at a secret CIA prison near Kabul, and the other the 2003 death of an Iraqi citizen while in CIA custody at Abu Ghraib. This decision, says the New York Times Friday, "eliminat[es] the last possibility that any criminal charges will be brought as a result of the brutal interrogations carried out by the CIA". “To see what a farce this is, it is worthwhile briefly to review the timeline of how Obama officials acted to shield Bush torturers from all accountability. During his 2008 campaign for president, Obama repeatedly vowed that, while he opposed "partisan witch-hunts", he would instruct his attorney general to "immediately review" the evidence of criminality in these torture programs because "nobody is above the law." Yet, almost immediately after winning the 2008 election, Obama, before he was even inaugurated, made clear that he was opposed to any such investigations, citing what he called "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards". So, whether it is domestic politics or crimes of Empire, the plutocrats and their plutocratic political and media minions just cycle the argument between Democrat and Republican to distract the mindless rubes that follow each party fighting each other so they never come to realize who the real enemy is. It’s amazing there is anyone left who is that stupid and ignorant who continues to fall for this scam. Whether it is lead in the water, corruption in the education process, or a barrage of propaganda from the mainstream media; when it comes to the ability of the plutocrats to create a nation of Hollywood-MSNBC-consumerist cretins that believe nothing but lies, they have done an excellent job. It makes one wonder; when living memory of these contemporary war crimes has passed, will history be rewritten like it has so many times before. Will this be just another distortion of reality like Washington's "Prisoner of War" narrative by Hartmann to maintain the illusion of American exceptionalism? I can only quote from CIA Director William Casey, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"
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