Lets see if we can state this in a way conservatives and war hawks can understand. Because 9/11 is being used as a false excuse for the war in Iraq and because Bush had no post-war plan for Iraq, we now have created chaos that we cannot end. Naturally the terrorist forces have moved into Iraq to further humiliate us.

Bush has given the terrorists a huge benefit over the past three years. Far from acting wisely to defeat international terrorism, his rash war has furthered the terrorists' agenda. Bush has turned most of the world from liking us to fearing us. And the terrorists are exploiting that.

The terrorists could only find safe sanctuary in Taliban Afghanistan before 9/11. Now they find safe sanctuary also in Iraq. And most other Middle East countries have populations that are now more likely to support, hide, join and finance terrorists than they were three years ago. Bush has helped Bin Laden.

This may not have been Bush's intention nor his vision of how all this would work out. But that is what we have now. Why? Because we have destroyed a viable country where we did not like the government. And the rest of the world has watched in horror. That country - that government - had done nothing to us, had nothing to do with 9/11, and did not harbor the terrorists. Bush knew this. We all knew this. (See Mar 4, 2003 on this website.) Bush lied to us and went to war. (He mentioned 9/11 five times even last night in justifying the war.) Now we have chaos. And it will get worse.

Meanwhile, as I posted back three months ago, China grows stronger. Bush weakens our military, fights a useless war, threatens several countries with war all at once - Iran, Syria, N. Korea - reverses 8 years of debt reduction and buries us in huge international debt. China will be able to work its will on us within a few years.

This website is one voice of one citizen of this great country. I speak out as a citizen. I encourage others to also. Tis a crisis much worse than Vietnam ever was. Bush's speech last night was a confirming moment that he is leading us down the path of perdition. In their minds, Bush and his associates have marginalized us anti-war liberals as traitors and unpatriotic. Conservatives need to realize this. They need to rethink their positions and look at where we are going.