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In reply to the discussion: Can we please end ONE 9/ll myth? There was NO "unity" after 9/11 [View all]2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)Canada has always had our back. Remember the day after? Americans could not fly in our airspace. But an airplane went around the country picking up Bin Ladens, particularly in Florida, and flying them out of the country. Bin Laden's were the contractors to the Saudi royal family. Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was nicknamed "Bandar Bush." The Bushes have been rehabilitated, thank you tRump for being far worse than most people could imagine. But no, there was not "unity" after 9/11. Karl Rove came from the school of Lee Atwater, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort, "creating your own reality." Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had been at the table with Nixon and Kissinger on Vietnam. They were at the table for Afghanistan and Iraq. And now 20 years later there may be trials for the people who actually participated in 9/11. Why twenty years later? Remember John Yoo? The man who wrote the Torture Memos that provided the rational for torture of the detainees? Remember Abu Ghraib? The prison were torture took place? A private and a sergeant went to prison for that, not Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney. Remember the CIA agent outed by Cheney, Valerie Plam, whose job was to track WMD around the globe? Scooter Libby, who worked for Cheney, was pardoned for that-by Trump. Where indeed did Donald Trump get the idea that the law does not apply to people like him.