The Questions that Could End the Endless War

...if anybody in the main$tream bothered to ask them. Kagro X:

If Qwest's competitors were already abetting this bloodless(?) coup before 9/11, then the "administration's" domestic spying not only has little if anything to do with response to terrorism, but it also objectively failed to prevent 9/11.

This leads to a whole series of other questions, however, concerning everything that's happened since November 2000. The answers to these questions would prove highly embarrassing to virtually every elected official in the United States Government, and would send dozens, possibly hundreds of the wealthiest and most powerful Americans to prison.

This story will go nowhere outside of cyberspace.

On the other hand, notice how the New York Pravda's liberal op-ed by Frank Rich today diffuses the blame... too far:

...We can continue to blame the Bush administration for the horrors of Iraq — and should. Paul Bremer, our post-invasion viceroy and the recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts, issued the order that allows contractors to elude Iraqi law, a folly second only to his disbanding of the Iraqi Army. But we must also examine our own responsibility for the hideous acts committed in our name in a war where we have now fought longer than we did in the one that put Verschärfte Vernehmung on the map.

I have always maintained that the American public was the least culpable of the players during the run-up to Iraq. The war was sold by a brilliant and fear-fueled White House propaganda campaign designed to stampede a nation still shellshocked by 9/11. Both Congress and the press — the powerful institutions that should have provided the checks, balances and due diligence of the administration’s case — failed to do their job. Had they done so, more Americans might have raised more objections. This perfect storm of democratic failure began at the top.

As the war has dragged on, it is hard to give Americans en masse a pass. We are too slow to notice, let alone protest, the calamities that have followed the original sin...

There were millions of people that protested against the war before it began. There have been millions of people protesting it ever since. The main$tream has consistently denigrated our views and tried to hush up all opposition... until it became glaringly obvious how bad for business the endless war really is.

Have you ever examined the blogsphere, Mr. Rich? There are thousands of websites devoted to trying to present the truth the main$tream ignores. Or actively lies about.

Mr. Rich, 70% of America are against the war. It's just we have all noticed the private prisons Mr. Cheney's business partners have built since the war began, and the draconian laws a complicit Congress has enacted to ensure the compliance of the American people.

But we have been asking questions, and continue to ask questions, the main$tream won't.