GHW Bush
GW Bush
D Cheney
D Rumsfeld
C Rice
G Clapper
G Alexander
P Wolfowitz
These are the guys that created the orders that the soldiers are following, and the war they are dying in for these criminal's profits.
The people I listed have a decades long history which brought them to the US Coup of 9/11: Cheney in particular.
The above are at the core of PNAC, the CIAs takeover of the executive branch (both Clinton and Obama are their puppets here)
GHW Bush has been running shit since the 70s.
Cheney setup the framework for the current MIC exploitation of the world when he was in Sec. Defense position in the early 90s - then setup Halliburton to be in the position to receive all the mandated private-sector contracts so the military could focus on its "core" -- the same with the Carlyle group.
(Carlyle owned CRG West (MAE WEST) and other fiber infra and DCs)
These guys worked diligently to put all this into place. Obama is just a puppet who was meant to quell the outrage that the Bush regime was bringing.
I posted a list of the key players in this, I did not post any party affiliation....
I can provide a hell of a lot more detail than this too - going back to 1920 with these guys...
You're wading far too deeply into conspiracy territory to suggest that this puppet 'was meant to quell' anything. He is a leader whose administration stands and falls on its own merits.
There is no party but the MIC party - and clearly, the NSA owns that party.
America has died, completely, 100%. There is no such thing as "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave"
The IC isn't running the government. They've got their hands full just running themselves.
The idea that we are not free is absurd. If I want to hold a rally for the Ku Klux Klan, that activity will be protected by the full force and power of the United States government. I can worship as I wish, read the books I choose, and write whatever I want (excepting direct threats of violence) with little fear, knowing that laws and courts stand ready to vindicate my rights.
I would take our extensive package of rights over single party political control, strongman leadership, civil law jurisdictions, and common law libel standards any day.
We are certainly no longer the most free nation on the planet, which saddens me deeply. But we are certainly amongst the best on that metric.
The American people overwhelmingly approved the Patriot Act, and the idea of surveillance, and the war on terror, and the actual wars on place.
The Obama administration resumed surveillance programs which had been previously shut down.
The military industrial complex has been growing steadily larger since the 1950s.
Congress people from both parties repeatedly approve the growth of the defense budget, and especially parts which gain them money and jobs for their own states and districts.
There are certainly people to demonize, but sorting them out from the well intentioned would be incredibly complicated.
You're clearly being partisan.