In the aftermath of September 11, George Bush declared his ‘war on terror’.

The self-anointed nemesis of the world’s ‘evil-doers’ then led the crusade to bomb Afghanistan back to the stone-age & record opium production, before criminally conspiring to unleash the dogs of war on the people of Iraq.

As ‘junior’ listened to his ‘voices’, the old dreamers from the Reagan era went into rapture at the prospect of realizing their global fascist vision of the ‘new American century’, whilst the military-industrial complex salivated over yet another US$300 billion in taxpayer funds waiting to be looted from the US treasury.

And, as Americans obediently succumbed to the prospect of revenge & salvation, secured by their master’s fear ‘meme’, their democracy was quietly done to death by the Patriot Act: its passage facilitated by a crippled legislature, that long ago had abrogated its sworn duty to the people & their constitution, by becoming the paid servants of corporate America, along with a corrupt 4^th estate that went to lunch & didn’t come back.

Yesterday, ‘junior’ - liar & sociopath – brazenly stood in front of American servicemen & women at Fort Bragg & harangued the American people about the need to ‘stay the course’ in Iraq & to defeat the evil terrorists - in the name of ‘freedom’.

This deserter, who morphed into a ‘war president’ - who conspired to wage an illegal war of aggression; who is guilty of the highest war crime – a crime against peace; who is directly responsible for the deaths of more than 1,700 young Americans & an estimated 100,000 innocent Iraqis; who has trashed International Law, including the Geneva & Torture Conventions – said:

‘Here are the words of Osama bin Laden: This third world war is raging in Iraq. The whole world is watching this war. He says it will end in victory & glory or misery & humiliation.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder & destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.’

Sickening, as we approach the 4^th anniversary of 911 & remember that Usama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist - a creature of the CIA - alleged architect of the horror that ‘changed the world forever’, still roams free.

And even more sickening when we learn that it could all have been avoided: that both the Clinton & Bush administrations failed to act on offers by the Taliban regime to hand-over bin Laden & end his reign of terror, thereby averting the catastrophe of 911 & the cataclysm that followed. 

Masters Of Incompetence