Juan Cole; Top Five Things Congress Should Investigate Instead of Benghazi

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http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/10/28/top-five-things-congress-should-investigate-instead-of-benghazi-video/

The fruitless carnival barking that was the GOP Benghazi inquisition did the nation the disservice of taking focus off the things really wrong with US policies, and places there really was wrongdoing. So here are some suggestions for real investigations:

1. We still don’t know why Bush-Cheney launched a groundless war of aggression on Iraq in 2003 and tore up the United Nations Charter that post-Nazi diplomats hoped would forestall further such wars of mere aggrandizement. Shouldn’t Congress, which was kept in the dark and actively lied to, look into how it and the country got snookered into destabilizing the Middle East?

2. There is every reason to believe that Exxon-Mobil understood the dangers of climate change from the burning of the fuels they provided to the world as early as the 1970s. The corporation clearly waged a propaganda campaign attempting to keep their profits high and to convince the public that climate change is a myth. In so doing they caused trillions of dollars of damage for which they should be held responsible. Maybe Congress might like to look into this criminal conspiracy, more consequential and damaging to their world even than the conspiracies of the Axis powers in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet we had the Nurenberg trials.