<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d00ee2e6-9cf4-492a-b390-e553ea3a5bfe/A24FC912-1948-4E8F-9013-659ADFBB4836/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire"><P class="storyheadline">Bush Era Horrors Will Haunt Us Until We Truly Face Them</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire">We're told that the CIA -- being the president's private army and part of the executive branch of our government -- has committed a heinous dereliction of duty. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire"><P>As a start, remind me: What didn't we do? Let's review for a moment.</P><P></P><P>In the name of everything reasonable, and in the face of acts of evil by terrible people,</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire">in response to the attacks of 9/11, we, as a nation, were the ones who declared "war," made it a near eternal struggle (the Global War on Terror), and did so much to turn parts of the world into our own private hell. Geopolitics, energy politics, vanity, greed, fear, a <A href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/101850/bush_s_faith_and_the_middle_east_aflame" linkindex="44">misreading</A> of the nature of power in the world, delusions of military and technological omnipotence and omniscience, and so much more drove us along the way.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/141568/bush_era_horrors_will_haunt_us_until_we_truly_face_them/?page=entire"><P>Now, read that list again, my list of just the known knowns, and ask yourself: Aren't we the people your mother warned you about?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A24FC912-1948-4E8F-9013-659ADFBB4836/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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