Keira Knightley – „Official Secrets“ (2019)

Ein wichtiger Film, denn: „Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist immer die Wahrheit.“ – Und wer, sich traut sie auszusprechen, wird bekämpft. Mit Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes und Rhys Ifans. (ZDF, WH)

Harrowing times making you nostalgic for #GeorgeWBush (#GWB)

George W Bush on the dangers of “isms”

Aikanaan #GeorgeWbush loi termin #AxisOfEvil - #PahanAkseli - johon kuuluivat Irak, Iran ja #PohjoisKorea.

#Trump on määritellyt termin uudestaan - ja saanut #Bush in kaltaisen kamaluuden presidenttinä näyttämään vielä vaan pienemmältä pahalta.

Kun #USA tosiaan äänesti Pohjois-Korean, #Venäjä n, #Unkari n ja muiden Venäjää peesaavien kanssa #Ukraina-asiassa vastaan.

Tilanteessa, jossa #Kiina (edelleen) vain pidättäytyi äänestämästä.

I dislike Xi Jinping's maritime bullying, fear Donald Trump's threats against Panama, and loathe Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

All of these are symptoms of worsening international relations. Let us not forget, however, that this current sickness is in large part a consequence of the US led invasion of Iraq, a war that violated norms against war as in instrument of policy, norms that had acted as an admittedly grossly imperfect yet still functional immune system for the international body politic. I still feel ashamed and angry that the UK's Labour Prime Minister went all in on this war.

What is happening today has deeper roots than the character flaws of some current leaders or an upsurge of populism post 2008. I've no time for talk of "Donald the Dove", but am equally impatient with those who refuse to recognize the role of the George W Bush administration in creating this mess.

Today in Labor History January 16, 1991: The U.S. invaded Kuwait and Iraq. By the end of the First Gulf War, the U.S., under President George H.W. Bush, had killed over 1,000,000 Iraqis from the bombings and the effects of the five-year embargo they imposed. Then, ten years later, Al-Qaeda would attack the U.S., prompting Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, to launch the “War on Terror,” which was, in actuality, a war OF terror that would lead to the deaths of 4.6 million people and at least 38 million people displaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror). This places Bush the 2nd as seventh on the list of top ten most murderous men in history, just behind King Leopold II, of Belgium.

Fuck #GeorgeWBush for the Iraq War but him refusing to acknowledge #Trump at #Carter's funeral is exactly how they should all handle him for refusing to admit he lost and J6. The other option, but I'd wait till after the event is over, is publicly confront him over it. Again, it's not about his policies or proposals. The selfish asshole is breaking the democracy.

This is what a f-cked up world we live in. Apparently. #GeorgeWBush was the only one who refused to shake #Trump's hand. WTF!
#USPol

Greg Miller: #Turkey exploits post-9/11 counterterrorism model to target critics in exile: Turkey has drawn extensively from the U.S. #counterterrorism post-9/11 playbook to go after exiled political enemies, in particular the #Gulen movement.

#gift #georgewbush
https://wapo.st/49G3Ial

#OnThisDay in 2006, American blues legend #BBKing is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President #GeorgeWBush.

Today is the luckiest day in the life of #GeorgeWBush. In 2008, during a press conference in #Baghdad , journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi took off his shoes and threw them at the clueless #POTUS yelling "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoe-throwing_incident

Bush was lucky to not be assassinated. He was responsible for the deaths of over a million innocent Iraqis and thousands of young #American soldiers during the #WarOverOil started after ‘faked yellow cake’.

@USAJusticeWatch Brings back those horrible #GeorgeWBush days. He was stupid and incompetent like #Trump but had a far more evil and competent group behind him.

This was almost a month ago - Nov 12, 2024. I learned about it right now, Dec 3, 2024.

Abu Ghraib detainees awarded $42 million in torture trial against U.S. defence contractor.

https://fair.org/home/at-abu-ghraib-there-was-a-conspiracy-to-torture/

#AbuGhraib
#GeorgeWBush

[#Podcast] #LawAndDisorder, September 9, 2024

#September11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked

"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The #GeorgeWBush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged #EndlessWars against #Afghanistan and #Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA #PatriotAct, opened the notorious detention center at #GuantanamoBay which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for #IndefiniteDetention, initiated a wave of #CivilLiberties and #HumanRights violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.

"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s #WarOnTerror. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.

"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the #CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of #AbuZubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.

"He became the sixth #whistleblower indicted by the #Obama administration under the #EspionageAct of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.

"In 2012, the #RalphNader family honored #Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for #CivicCourage, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."

Listen:
https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/

#CIASponsoredTerror #CivilRights, #CriminalizingDissent #ExtraordinaryRendition #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IraqWar #BushAdministraiton #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolation #TargetingMuslims #Torture #WarResister #Whistleblowers #CivilLiberties #CivilLibertiesRadio #EndlessWar