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Re:U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet... by afterburner on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:29PM (#35484319)
> Were George W. Bush and Tony Blair held accountable for lying about WMD and launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq?

Yes, they (and their political parties) lost power in elections a few years later. Try that in China.

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Re:U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet... by Phlarp on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:12PM (#35484868)
George Bush was reelected for a second term and didn't leave office until he was unable to run for it again.

He was reelected because of his role in foreign interventions not in spite of them.

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Re:U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet... by afterburner on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:59PM (#35485575)
The Republican party was run out of the Presidency, Senate, and House in 2008.

Xi looks like he'll be dictator for life. And the people didn't elect him.

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Re:U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet... by l3mure on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:47PM (#35488065)
The notion that losing an election is "accountability" for mass murder and the deliberate demolition of an entire state is genuinely deranged. Accountability would be Bush, Cheney, Bremer, Tenet, et al getting the Mussolini treatment in the middle of Baghdad, anything less is a farce.
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Re:U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet... by afterburner on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:37AM (#35491639)
Democracy offers more accountability (at the very least removal from power) than any authoritarian regime. And it does so automatically every few years.
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