Reply #15: Part of my longing for prosecution of the Bush Cheney Gang

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was that it might prompt a re-examination of our defense budget. But we didn't even get a Truth & Reconciliation series of hearings. If we had, the exposure of Bush Cheney war profiteering would have been more concentrated, rather than the news trickling out in isolated exposés.

Millions of Americans voted Democratic, hoping for deep change, which included reassessing our national security and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.

But Cheney's concerted military privatization since he was Sec Def (before becoming CEO of Halliburton to reap the rewards of his campaign) has further strengthened the power of the military industrial complex.

And even after we were all bankrupted by the Bush Crash, our Democrats couldn't band together and give us desperate people national health security through the eminently understandable "Medicare for All."

How sad it is that we couldn't get our Democratic legislators to push for renewable energy development and conservation as part of our national defense effort. It certainly could have been promoted that way, IF we had a more independent mass media.

But since we privatized our election campaigns, the "wisdom of the private sector" dictated that billions should be poured into obsolete weaponry and brutal warfare to maintain the supply of enemies we would have to fight.