I would also like to point out that the only achievements of this administration, for good or bad, were accomplished through the presentation to the Congress and public of CRISIS, and in both cases we were told to suspend disbelief and the national survival depended on swift action, that naysayers were anti-American, unpatriotic and uncomprehending.
911 was perpetrated by 17 Saudi Arabiatns, many of whom had been tracked by the various agencies. A female FBI agent in Minnesota was actually written up and transferred for pestering her superiors that a bunch of Arabs were taking flying lessons in 747 simulators and were only practicing taking off but not landing. I read every single page of the 911 Commission Report and it was a tome that refused to connect all the dots it presented.
Iraq in fact had no weapons of mass destruction and for anyone who knows history, Hussein was backed by the United States (Ronald Reagan, among others) exactly for the purpose of fighting Islamic extremism. He was our prick that was supposed to help neutralize Ayatollah Khomeni, of Iran.
Ronald Reagan dropped one bomb on the tent of Mummar Qhadaffi, killing his 4 year old son, and not much was heard from him again.
George Bush has made a crater out of a whole country while letting Usamqa bin Laden go and making deals with Afghanistan to let them keep planting heroin poppies that decimate our cities. In this he is not alone. Almost every president in the latter half of the twentiethh century has chosen to fight the war on drugs by arresting poor urban black addicts and dealers rather than bombing the drug fields owned by the potentates our leaders conspire with.
This financial crisis is again a situation in which we are being told to suspend our disbelief, our critical faculties, and go along with the plan or risk the whole house of cards coming down.
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