Just To Settle It

Afghan War lost, Afghanistan a failed narco-state, the billions in drug money helping fuel the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Quaeda, along with billions in oil money thanks largely to the oil premium we pay for Bush's wars.

Iraq War lost, Iraq in tatters also de-evolving into brutally corrupt sectarian enclaves and warlordism and feudal states.

Syria a mess, holding tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees, Jordan a mess again with tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees, Lebanon reeling from Israeli attacks, Palestinians even more brutalized than they were 6 years ago (if you can imagine that). Turkey invading Iraq to quell Kurdish military incursions into Turkey, Iran on the ascendance, enriching uranium and banging it's chest.

Over 85 thousand Americans dead or wounded, over a trillion dollars spent directly on the war with another half trillion in re-arming and taking care of the wounded, and no end in sight.

America's moral standing in the world trashed as evidence of our war crimes grows every day, our economic powers faltering, our diplomatic power, pretty much a joke. Our military power, woefully inadequate for the tasks at hand.

Our allies looking for new friends, while our enemies are growing stronger.

After almost seven years at war, the primary target and named enemy, Al Quaeda is stronger, better organized and better funded than ever before. The policies of George Bush have managed after all this time and expense not to destroy Al Queada or diminish the threat to Americans and the the world but to metastasize Al queada into global behemoth, with tens of thousands more followers and billions in new funding. After seven years of war our enemy is stronger than it was on Sept. 11 2001. Just a plain and simple fact.
Our enemies are , more organized, better funded and swamped with new recruits, while we are drowning in debt, and our military is scrounging for recruits and losing more experienced people every day. They are winning, and they know they are winning. And all because Bush and Co. failed to recognize the simple realities of human life.

Even though they spout the religious rhetoric, and their script writers punctuate every thought with democracy and freedom their policies in reality do nothing to enhance equality, democracy or freedom. Instead their policies on serve to feed the ravenous hunger for power and wealth of their corporate and political friends. To the republicans and the Bush clan in particular there is no America, aside from serving their own greed for privilege and power.

Every expert, military or academic has testified that is it not a question of IF but WHEN the next attack will come.

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And Bush and Co are scrambling now to delete all the records of their crimes, and yet we will be left with their destructive results for many decades to come.