Important News You Probably Didn't Hear Because of the Boston Bombs

by Hortensia 11 Replies latest social current

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  Hortensia

  Brian Williams said that if the bombs hadn't happened in Boston on that day, the world would be discussing the other news that day:

  http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17781845-bush-era-torture-use-indisputable-guantanamo-must-close-task-force-finds

  This is shocking - if I understand it correctly, President Bush knew about, discussed and approved the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other secret CIA prisons. Is former President Bush going to have to answer for this? Of course not.

  Take a moment from reading about the bombs in Boston and the explosion in Texas and the earthquake in the middle east to read this article.
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  compound complex

  Hi Hortensia:

  Peter Jennings is back?

  BWms
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  Hortensia

  sorry -- Brian Williams. I got the name wrong!

  Doesn't really matter, still an important story.
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  Simon

  Yes, kind of disappointing that the people who make the decisions aren't the ones that ever have to answer for the evil they have other do on their behalf.
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  Dagney

  Oh no, we watched it...on Jon Stewart's daily show.

  Forgot to add: Bush...LOS
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  Vidiot

  Dubya will face the consequences of his presidential misdeeds, just like Tricky Dick did.

  Oh, wait...
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  gcs7000

  Outside the US, both Bush and Cheney can be arrested as war criminals. That is why you rarely, if ever, hear of either of them traveling abroad.
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  slimboyfat

  Didn't Obama promise to close it way back in 2008?
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  jgnat

  Yes, he did, SBF.

  It makes me wonder what intelligence he was given to justify it's continued existence.
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  slimboyfat

  If it's still there when he leaves office he should be ashamed of himself. There are people who have been held there because of mistaken identities and other outrages of injustice.