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In reply to the discussion: Suppose a foreign leader had Osama bin Laden in her plane [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)was plenty of evidence of his role in those crimes.
There was no evidence of his rile in 9/11 and he was never indicted or charged with that crime. Also he denied it. We never had an investigation into that crime, other than the very compromised excuse for an investigation only after the victims pressured Congress to do so.
I believe in the rule of law and of abiding by the law. We had the moral authority and justice on our side before 9/11.
But as we've been told so often, everything changed after 9/11. Would we have gone to war, yes. That was the plan and no one was going to stop them. But that war had zero to do with 9/11. It was a war of aggression, an invasion of a sovereign nation in which hundreds of thousands of innocents were killed and tortured and wrongfully detained and millions were displaced from their homes and country.
So yes, arrest Bin Laden for the crimes we know he was responsible for and arrest the War Criminals from the Bush administration. Everyone should be equal under the law.
But we have now abandoned the rule of law, so all of this is just reminiscing over how things would be and should be in an actual democratic state where the law is respected.