I predict, will be as successful as the last crusade of the middle ages.
Unfortunately for all of us, we have an idiot for a president.
Having no foreign relations experience of his own, it is he who delegated the control of our country's foreign policy, its treasury and future, to a handful of ultra-radical right wing warmongers.
So far to the right of the mainstream party they are, even the Conservatives are worried about our future economic security.
Who truly believes that Bush and his warmongers have made Americans safer, whether at home or abroad? (Or the world, for that matter?)
Our invasion to "Liberate" Iraqis by removing Hussein has been merely a thinly disguised an attempt to control that country's vast oil resources. We all know how impoverished our oil companies are!
The same is true in Afghanistan. We're there to control the oil flowing through their pipeline.(and maybe to keep the drugs flowing, too)
By bankrupting our treasury, our president has done more to harm our future security than any terrorist bombs have.
Our invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq has been the Islamic peoples 911 and has become their rallying cry to arms, to join themselves together to try and beat back America's aggressive actions, everywhere.
Look at the affect of 911 and our populace's reaction to it. We once found comfort in the protections afforded us by our constitution. It is now being dismantled, bit by bit, or ignored altogether by those in power.
The Patriot Act alone, by itself, has done more to diminish my feeling of security as an American, than any terrorist bombings occurring anywhere in my neighborhood, or anywhere else in America.
After all, Islamic fundamentalists are not that much unlike our fundamentalist Christians - each see each other as heathen blasphemers who need to be exterminated.
Change is needed if this country is to survive.
We will all be either a part of the problem or part of the solution, depending on who we vote for.
Al, did you ever stop to think how many family farms will be gobbled up by agri-biz solely because they can no longer afford fuel for their tractors?
