The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Since its inception, the Bush administration has called wolf time after time.

First, was the invasion of Iraq. You remember the drill, if we didn't invade Iraq, those evil Iraqi's were gonna burn your house down, kick your dog and steal your bible. Oh, and they, Sadaam Hussein did 9/11 wink, wink.

Department of Homeland Security - If we didn't invest so much power in the DHS, our cherished way of life was in danger. I guess, New Orleans missed that memo huh?

Then the Patriot Act, that old chestnut of spying on Americans. If we don't give the president the ability to spy and lock up people indefinitely, our way of life was threatened.

The warrant less wiretapping practiced first in secret by the administration (welcome back Stasi), and then browbeaten into law - remember, it was for our own good.

I don't know about you, but the past 7 years of lies and obfuscation, it is rather hard to take the newest crisis seriously. Unfortunately, this crisis is actually the real deal. But it in itself was created by the lies and policies of the Bush Administration.

Do you remember way back in the beginning of Bush's first term, when concerns for the economy were breaking though the public consciousness, Bush's mantra was "spend, spend, spend". The crux of his argument was that if we, the main street residents, would only go out and buy big houses, and spend on whatever took our fancy, the economy would recover naturally because we did our part. Well, that worked didn't it? We spent our way into the next great depression.

Now to be fair, we could have, should have seen through the lies - but we obviously didn't want to. We wanted to buy the lie. And now we are up to our necks in crap.

I do think that Bush, and his disastrous policies have destabilized the entire world. Frankly, I think he and his cronies knew that the price for their hubris would be high. I think they didn't expect things to fall apart so quickly. I can't believe that they would make the decisions they made without understanding that the bill would come due. Maybe they thought the price was worth the lies. I say that the price we are paying for Bush, Cheney, and the neocon agenda is way too high. And the Americans who voted for him twice, need to take a step back and really look at the devastation they have wrought and decide very carefully who to vote for.

This is the time to not only figure out how to move forward, but to firmly remember how we came to this precipice. If we don't understand how we got here, we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes over and over.

On November 1, 2004, Osama Bin laden released a tape stating his goal to bankrupt the US. The story is at CNN. What amazes me is the arrogance of the Bush administration to recklessly throw away our country to spite Sadaam Hussein. I guess Bush was too busy to notice that he was playing right into Bin laden's hands. Al Queida didn't need to attack America again - Bush did it for him.