Lets take a look over the U.S. power structure over the last few decades. The Kennedy's, their money inherited through illegal liquor smuggling during the prohibition, along with all the bribes and violence those type of activities invite. Kennedy , who involved the US in the Vietnam conflict after first sending CIA and army personnel on an 'advisory status' (you can read the letters on the official freedom of information act which brought this correspondence to light.) Nixon impeached for wiping tapes and orchestrating a fictitious break-in to hide the truth. He was really the last leader brought to task for criminal activity and was pardoned by Ford before spending a single night in jail. Reagan, who used his actor's fame and presence, to wriggle his way out of the fact he was providing arms to South American murder squads and terrorists known to be murdering men women and children. A flagrant and illegal abuse of power he was never even tried for. Then the first Bush, selling arms - including poisonous gas to Iraq in it's war against both Iran and mass extermination of their own people. Then Clinton, who so blatantly twisted lies about his notorious affair, it was embarrassing enough to listen, let alone watch on TV. And then there's the second Bush. The one who grounded all flights in the USA except those whisking the Bin Laden family back to Saudi Arabia immediately after 9/11. To look at this realistically, 'Hacking Democracy' was a phenomenally brave and convincing documentary showing how America was cheated out of its democratic process and informing us of how Bush turned America into a country soon to be more fascist than democratic. Let's face it. America is run by business. Oil power and profit are now our democratic purpose. Let me state this reality. I have mentioned nothing here that you cannot verify for yourself with a little research. If you accept that Bush should have and never would have been elected in a fair process, then his interference with personal freedoms, riches attained through contracts given to Cheyney and all of his other cohorts, and last BUT definitely not least, an illegal invasion of Iraq are all crimes - the last a crime whether legally elected or not. Why is nobody calling him out on these issues? Why aren't the same people who went after Clinton for a lesser offense, chasing him down with the tenacity deserved? People scream anti-American! at you if you so much as mention a difficult question, and then claim we're somehow assaulting and insulting our troops abroad. It is way past the time those in command explain themselves honestly,without rhetoric, and that we refuse to be fobbed off yet again. If any other administration in any other country had pulled the same stunts we have, the US would be on them like a ton of bricks. Hacking Democracy should be a must see in every classroom in America. If proved we have a president who should be immediately impeached, we'd end up having to pay reparations to Iraq and Bush could be brought before a war tribunal and charged with crimes against humanity for the hundreds of thousands of deaths he's caused to say nothing of those maimed for life in this abhorrent mess he's caused in Iraq.
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