Seeking the Truth

Finding the truth about the war on terror

04/29/2010 LAST WEEK, I discussed the PBS documentary on the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War.

I referred to it as one of the "dark moments in U.S. history." I also stated projects such as the My Lai documentary were necessary to assist us as a nation to self-reflect honestly, to avoid any unrealistic vision of itself, and to possibly avoid engaging in the cyclical process of justifying the debauchery.

Those specific teachable moments in the maturation process of the nation may have passed America, at least as it relates to the vaunted and often times nebulous "war on terror."

The London Times reported that former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent individuals were sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp because officials feared that releasing them would harm their rationale for invading Iraq and the overall war on terror polices.

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As more information trickles out from the declassification of government documents, it is becoming increasingly clear that it was more than a case of bad intelligence, as the popular institutional yarn holds. Rather it was a systematic approach to a policy rooted in malevolence.

What other secrets are lurking behind those yet-to-be declassified documents? Are there others who worked with the previous administration who have a story to tell that counters the prevailing public myth about the war on terror, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and, of course, the inception to the invasion and occupation of Iraq? Editorial Continues

I added the link to the My Lai Doc. mentioned. It is to the main page with the promo video, look to the left side for the links about as well as to the link to watch in full {some 83 minutes long}.