In the 1850s, many in Washington realized that they were going to have to abolish slavery. Why? Not because it was an unspeakable crime, they knew that. But economics always tops stopping an unspeakable crime. After witnessing slave rebellions, they realized that if nothing was done about, they were increasing the risk of the rise of Communism under the abolitionist banner. Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, however, most abolitionists were Geoists, it was very likely that at some point the slaves would join with the immigrant wage laborers and united under Communism as opposed to the less revolutionary Geoism.
What does this have to do with Bush Administration criminal acts? Washington might similarly be worried that if they don't grant the demands for a special prosecutor, which would be in accordance with the will of the vast majority of the US population and just about everybody not in the United States, there could be a movement, in the United States, that has yet to exist, but could arise, for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to end the US empire, the National Security State and the Military-Industrial Complex, similar to the one that ended Apartheid in South Africa. The commission would investigate and remedy every post-war war crimes by American administrations and Presidents, the myth of the cold war, 9/11, nuclear weapons and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms industry's power, the national security state, the CIA/NSA, the surveillance state, the myth of the cold war/war on terror, actions of the US government domestically, American colonialism and imperialism from our first foreign adventurism to now, and anything else I left out.
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The commission would then end those activities, get all the facts out in open, remedy them, and appoint special prosecutors to file indictments.
This would be a sober look at the US.
We have to get out of the warrior mindset. Nobody wants us to have military bases in their country, imagine if the Chinese had bases in California? Nobody wants to have a military budget that is the size of the rest of the world's combined, and still send our troops with Vietnam body armor. All while not having money for education or health care or social uplift.