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In reply to the discussion: Can people here have an adult conversation? [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)to face right now.
88 percent of us approved of Bush after 9/11 and gave him carte blanche to do as he pleased. As one of the 12 percent who did not, I suggest that Americans need to reflect on the fact that yeah....we can't be too sanctimonious, because the vast majority of us really didn't give a shit about torture after 9/11. We thought the people keeping us 'safe' were patriots, and we told them, through DOJ memos and orders, to torture.
Let's not kid ourselves here....the people in charge of our intelligence agencies did have a tough job....preventing another attack, especially with Bush willing to ignore things like the PDB of 8/6/2001. Would you have wanted to be working at the CIA on 9/12?
And we Americans let this happen. So yeah...we can't be too sanctimonious and pretend the blood isn't on all of our hands. I was in the 12 percent, and I still wonder if I could have done more. We let Bush and Cheney decide the moral compass....to our shame.