I very recently watched two older TV show reruns that were based on the American response to Abu  Ghraib and the report of horrible human suffering perpetrated on the Iraqis by US military and CIA personnel.  One of these episodes was released in 2004 and the other in 2006.  Both of the episodes excused the American conduct as fighting the war the on the ground.  Both were emotional responses to the Abu Ghraib exposures of US torture, and supporting the US position of trying to fight the war on terror.

Let me say, unequivocably, that i was, and still am, deeply offended by the portrayal of the US actions in any sympathetic manner. But that was then, and this is now, and between the then and now we have had the proverbial hindsight.  And the hindsight, in terms of ongoing research by academics, NGOs, and others, has overwhelmingly determined that the US followed a course of torture and crimes against humanity throughout the Iraq and parts of the Afghan conflicts.  Yet, for some wonderful, oblivious, yet nefarious reason, the two TV shows have been shown in 2013, over repeated nights and days, representing the original Bush-Cheney rhetoric free from the long term residual fact-finding that went on to settle the actual scores.

This is typical America escapism, free from any long-term factual inquiry.  Thousands upon thousands of US citizens believe the US televised expressions of US policies.  Yet, they have never once been afforded, in the same moment of actual continuity, the revelation of truth and fact.  One of these shows has been repeated more than 6 times per year for the last 9 years, without one word regarding the actual long-term research exposing the facts and the torture.  That is 6 times 9, equaling 54 repeated episodes, where the US TV watching population has been repeatedly exposed to emotional content that have been proven absolutely false.  

If we, the citizens of this country, allow repeated episodic falsity to inspire emotional responses, more than 54 times over 9 years, we are screwed.  There is zero wonder, why, as we approach a year of massive failure of US institutional systems, that we are so far from knowing what is going on.   Systemic lies on top of systemic lies are burying the US in layers of massive BS, from which we will not be able to escape.