Bush tells another bald-faced whopper, claims he has laid the 'foundation of peace'!

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--How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place Terrorism is always worse under GOP regimes and continues to worsen now.

The combination of bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continued terrorist attacks from Britain to Somalia, and a presidential election in which candidates are defining themselves based on how they would stare down the threats has many seeing shades of gray. Six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, just 29 percent of Americans believe the United States is winning the war on terror-the lowest percentage at any point since 9/11.
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In Iraq, for instance, the same surge in U.S. forces that is meant to help pacify Baghdad only escalates violence elsewhere in the country. In the broader Middle East and South Asia, some of the same countries that are now the United States' most crucial allies have also been guilty of cultivating the very terrorists we look to bring to justice. Deciphering priorities from such difficult paradoxes can be hard. So, how can one determine whether the war on terror is making America safer or more dangerous?
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The world these experts see today is one that continues to grow more threatening. Fully 91 percent say the world is becoming more dangerous for Americans and the United States, up 10 percentage points since February. Eighty-four percent do not believe the United States is winning the war on terror, an increase of 9 percentage points from six months ago. More than 80 percent expect a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 within a decade, a result that is more or less unchanged from one year ago.

--The Terrorism Index

The world will never be safe as long as the US makes of the Pentagon a huge, bureaucratic mechanism by which your tax monies are channeled into the coffers of 'military contractors', in fact our largest industry. That this 'death' industry exploits the labors of millions who would be out of productive employment in times of peace proves the utter failure of the GOP to encourage or support a peace time economy. Since Ronald Reagan, GOP regimes have presided over the dissolution of American industrial might.

The world will never again be safe as long as there remains this economic incentive to wage war Having long ago run out of ideas, the GOP will invent pretexts to wage aggressive war. George W. Bush or a hand-picked successor will benefit from a second terrorist attack that would keep Blackwater USA employed as it enriches America's 'merchants of death', the military/industrial complex which makes up a disproportionate slice of the US economy.

The US has become Mass Murder, Incorporated, a fascist and illegitimate government whose job is now absurdly circular. It wages war upon the world in order to keep the industries of war employed! This was the 'formula' for the fall of Rome and it describes an American fall that is at present underway. Thank you, George W. Bush! Thank you GOP! Thank you, too, the blood suckers of the Military/Industrial Complex. Thanks also to the US imperial establishment --an absurd, self-justifying 'entity', a clear and present danger to civilization. War has become America's number one export. America is hooked on war and Bush will always need another fix.

"And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war."

--Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

It is telling that over the course of the American aggression in Iraq, the 'coalition of the willing' is no more. Bush and his last allies --Rush Limbaguh and the Faux Network --would have you believe the lie that Bush alone is right while the entire world is wrong. Wrong! The war was begun upon a fraud amd is therefore a capital crime under US codes, a war crime under the Nuremberg Principles and other international convention.

Because Bush is a self-appointed prophet, Americans continue to pay for his war of aggression and self-aggrandizement with their lives in Iraq and with their jobs, prospects, and educations here at home. One day, when the point is driven home that there is a high price to be paid for Bush's lies, the American people will --at last --awaken and drive this criminal from office and into prison or the gallows.

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