Part 4: Because we can never get enough of putting a boot in some poor people's ass.
One thing I do know: If 9/11 had happened in any other Western democracy, this wretched and insulting anniversary scene would never have taken place. Because the attacks of 9/11 would have spurred any other parliamentary body to demand immediate investigations, and when it became clear that the chief executive and his minions had been asleep at their posts and then lied about the attacks in much the same way the Bush people did, they would have been subjected to a no-confidence vote, forced to call new elections, and driven from office by outraged voters. Don't believe me? It's already happened.
Maybe this is bad form to express today---you tell me---but shame on Obama for allowing himself to be seen in the same area code as that murderous son of a bitch, let alone at the site of his single greatest policy fuckup. The man belongs in prison for war crimes, not on a podium where 3,000 people died needlessly so he and his neocon buddies could squander the nation's blood and treasure on a trillion-dollar experiment in global social engineering that cost 100,000 lives. Short of incarceration, the man deserves to be heckled and hounded for the rest of his days, and treated with the same flippant arrogance he treated the nation for the first six years of his Presidency. It will be decades, if ever, before we can wash the toxic stain of Bushism completely out of our political fabric, and making bipartisan gestures of recognition towards a man who elevated the scapegoating and demonization of his political opponents into an art form only delays the collective healing that needs to take place---and hasn't even really begun yet---before we can truly learn the lessons of the awful day and start to construct policy solutions that ensure it never happens again.
---Vitelius
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