You can use this argument for literally anything, it means nothing.

> Apparently we live in a country where the government can murder thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, deny that it ever happened, and profit off of the destruction.

> But god help you if you brutally beat someone to death

To be honest one of the reasons that government malfeasance of the kind that got us into Iraq is so dangerous is that it promotes exactly this kind of cynicism.

We’ll be hearing exactly this kind of argument for decades because of the shit trump is getting away with now, and he’s arguing he should get away with it because of the shit Clinton and Bush got away with.

It’s off topic, but a culture of law breaking at the top promotes law breaking at all levels of society.

The justice system is not single-threaded. It can deal with more than one case at a time.

The government profited? I always hear that it cost 6 trillion or something

government officials and connected firms profited, taxpayers lost out

If the government does one thing unethical, immoral, or in violation of international law, and that must necessarily result in all contracts being nullified as preposterous in comparison, then it's chaos.

What you're describing is an eventual consequence of metastasizing corruption. Wealth does not trickle down, but corruption does.