Were the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq wars of aggression? Apparently not! Bush and Cheney decreed that U.S. forces need not comply with the Geneva Conventions or other international laws governing war crimes.
As Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Bush and Cheney convinced Americans that they could commit war crimes because their power enabled them to override the rule of law.
More than a million innocent men, women and children have been slaughtered in the so-called "war on terror". Yet the mainstream media and the Obama administration refuse to hold U.S. officials accountable for crimes against humanity.
Even so, these crimes have been protested by millions of people at home and abroad. To discover the underlying causes of these crimes and relations to incipient fascism, click Mourning Civil Liberties and read on.
