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In reply to the discussion: Waking From My Moral Coma [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)much about that as we have, sadly, learned over the past few years. We've learned that no American can make it to the WH UNLESS they can be counted on not to interfere with the War Machine.
Think about that for a minute. I too am awake, but in a different way. Before 2008 I still believed that who was in the WH WOULD make a difference wrt to our foreign policies. I still believed that war crimes had a better chance of being prosecuted depending on who occupies the WH.
Now I know better because while I never shared your admitted apathy when it came to killing people in foreign nations for their resources, I was fooled by the idea that anyone could even get close to the WH if they did not support our draconian and criminal Foreign Policies, and/or at least do nothing to end them or to punish those who violated both our own laws and International law.
If you really have awakened, then you will acknowledge that the exposure by Wikileaks of this administration's interference in the prosecution of the Bush
War Criminals in the Spanish court, should have been a defining moment for anyone who shares your views on those policies.
To be truly awake means acknowledging that yes, it is Obama and/or anyone else who makes it to the WH UNTIL we the people stand up en masse against our criminal foreign policies. And that can't happen when Democrats go to sleep when they are in power.
The only possibility of changing things is to focus on Congress. We can't do anything about the WH until we have a Congress that will not go along with the policies which no one in the WH, Dem or Repub, is going to change until they have to.