President Bush's popularity (or what is left of it) came from one thing and one thing alone, fear. It wasn't simply "9/11", it was the fear of another attack and his faux determination to get the terrorist that perpetrated that terrible act. His determination was only to exert control over the country in order to carry out the plan to destroy America as we know it. Civil liberties are on the decline, our popularity across the globe is almost non-existant and wealth is flowing at an uncontrollable rate towards the elite.
How the hell did he do this? It was fear, and the primary tool of that was to say that if we didn't attack our enemies over there, they would come here. But, how true is that statement? The military and many diplomats say it isn't.
From McClatchy:
“The president is using a primitive, inarticulate argument that leaves him open to criticism and caricature,” said James Jay Carafano, a homeland security and counterterrorism expert for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy organization. “It’s a poor choice of words that doesn’t convey the essence of the problem - that walking away from a problem doesn’t solve anything.”
U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush's own government say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States.
Foreign-born jihadists are present in Iraq, but they're believed to number only between 4 percent and 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgent fighters - 1,200 to 3,000 terrorists - according to the Defense Intelligence Agency and a recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a center-right research center.
Even conservative think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation knows this. If they can admit to the truth, it shows that America really is waking up to Bush's failed policy and the tools he uses to implement them. It is time to throw off the yoke that George Bush has around our collective neck and choose a new direction. It is time to get the hell out of there and focus on what is truly important for the United States.
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