Against All Odds

The Bush administration and Republicans like McCain still rant about their need to fight Islamic extremism, that Iraq was the right decision, and that we are winning, when it is obvious to everyone but them that their actions post 911 have only served to exacerbate the problem of violent Islamic fundamentalism, firm up opposition to US policies, and spread the mistrust and despair that only fuels this kind of radical philosophy, and strengthens the very people and radical philosophies we should be trying to defeat. The war has spread Al Quaeda and violent Islamic fundamentalism like a cancer to every corner of the globe, our bad policies and poor leadership has metastasized what was a small rag tag group of radical fundamentalists into a global behemoth, combined with a fourfold increase in the price of oil, the proceeds of which fund this violent 'revolution'. Add to that the fact that their ranks are swelling while ours are withering. And you have what McCain calls 'a winning strategy' in Iraq.

Americans are so dumb, numb, doped up, fat, misinformed and lazy that they are happy to believe this crap despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

I still hear republican supporters defending the actions of Bush-Cheney, poor misguided souls.

Study after study, expert after expert has testified to this as well as CIA and others in the administration who even prior to the invasion of Iraq warned of such consequences in open testimony before congress.

The Rand Corp. report characterizes "U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" as "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive, and, on the whole, infeasible." The Pentagon asked the nonprofit research organization to review strategies to thwart insurgents.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/11/rand.insurgencies/index.html

And what do you think the next attack on the US will bring us? An attack that every expert has characterized as not if but when. Will it bring us all an epiphany and sanity, or more radical warmongering, misinformation, hatred and despair. With our own radical fundamentalist Christians being revved up by the 'radical clerics' of thier evangelical faith, and the opportunistic politicians who pander to their dis-functional philosophy, what we have is a perfect storm. A storm of hatred, mistrust, hopelessness, misery and death.

What do you think the next attack on the US will bring us?

Take a guess.

MTMIND