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Zorra
(27,670 posts)stark realities?
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)I'd been stewing over what Obama said for the last few days and it hit me.
Torturers are patriots. Thus the Bush and Cheney regime are the patriotic regime. Just what the right wing and their crazies have been telling us all along.
And Obama confirmed.
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(32,139 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Everyone was afraid and begging the government to take over our lives and invade every aspect of our privacy!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that day. I couldn't reach them by phone so didn't know for a few days if everyone was alright.
After absorbing what had happened, my next biggest fear was that the Cheney/Bush gang would USE it to start a war somewhere.
I remember a beautiful woman, a writer I believe, she was from the ME, speaking about the awful tragedy of losing so many innocent people, and then she pleaded for a response that would not cause more heartbreak for more innocent people. I can't remember her name and never saw her again.
As time passed, I realized I was not a patriot, because Bush supporters told me so, I suddenly became a terrorist loving traitor who thought that giving Saddam a hug would solve all the problems in the world'. I remember asking 'what did Saddam have to do with 9/11'? But the patriotic fervor that was gripping the country made THAT question 'treason'.
So no, I wasn't even patriotic enough to support lying about who was responsible, never mind torture.