Watch where you're stepping!!!

Georgie. Georgie. Georgie...

Watch where you're putting your steppers my friend. I know you're not that bright, and probably don't look down where you're walking, but I would definitely have one of your aides' ass for this one. They let you walk out, and walk all over the American flag. Word on the street is that he did this because he has already walked all over the Constitution, might as well use the flag to wipe 'yer feet on George. Jesus Mary and Joseph. Talk about a total sense of dis-respect for the symbol of our country. Now, I'm actually willing to give the Shrub here a little bit of a break on this one. Sure he walked over the flag, technically, but someone had to put that mat out there in the first place. Whose idea was that? Wherever it came from, it was indeed just a bad idea, someone must have been wearing their bad idea jeans to work that day. I can see it now.

"OK, and what we'll do is have a floor mat made with a flag on it, and September 11th, and we'll put it down in front of the President of the United States. Jeesh, what if he walks on it? Nah, he won't, he's smarter than that."

OK, maybe he isn't. Well, we know he isn't. I'm sure he didn't mean to do it, but he did, and it makes him look even dumber than he really is, and it just makes him look bad, and if there is one day out of his entire Presidency where I don't wish him to look bad, it is on the 5th anniversary of September the 11th, when he has to look Presidential, and say some words, and have the world really watching him. Instead, he looks like the chowder head that he is. I can't wait for this ass clown to get out of office, and maybe somebody, anybody can come in and start cleaning up the mess he has made. Don't know who that is going to be, but hell, I'd take anyone with a brain at this point in time. Even the good old days of Ross Perot aren't looking too bad right now. Even though that guy did look like Frank Purdue a little bit.

Then with have good old Dick Cheney this weekend on Meet The Press. The man essentially, no, not essentially, he does come out and says that the debate that is going on within the country right now about the war in Iraq is giving into the strategy of the terrorists. So let me get this straight, Dick... Debate in a democratic free country is bad. Trusting your leaders when they've time and again proven that they can't be trusted is good? Wait a minute. I think you're trying to say that if we're not on your side, and don't march lock step with you and your sock puppet W about the war in Iraq that we're on the side of the terrorists. Guess what ass-face? A majority of the country no longer sides with you. Yes indeed. It took 6 long years, but alas, finally, they're starting to catch on to your little charade. Let me put it to you this way Cheney-meister. When the administration starting cracking down on security in this country, started ignoring the Constitution, and we had to start giving up our freedoms in the name of security; that's how the terrorists have won. They're taken this victory actually, because we are now a more frightened society as a whole, and that's due in large part to the fear mongering present within the current administration (in case you forgot Dick, that's you). We're constantly being told, hey, we're safer now than we were 5 years ago, but we're still not out of the woods yet. Terrorists can come and kill you at any point in time now, and by all means, don't let the democrats run anything, because then we'll get attacked again for sure. And what is the Bush administration's "proof" that we're safer now? They keep saying, over and over again, that we haven't been attacked since 9/11, so things must be working. Well, again, you're wrong. Take a look back in history. The first time the World Trade Center was bombed was in 1993. Now I may not know how to add, or use additions tricky cousin subtraction, but from 1993 to 2001 was a span of 8 years in which we didn't have a foreign terrorist, or terrorists for that matter, cause harm on American soil. Umm, it's only been 5 years since 9/11. Before the current administration goes off touting how good their national security policies have been working, let's let them work a little longer, and see what happens. Now, it is entirely possible that there may never be another attack on American soil, and this is honestly what I'm hoping for, but the fatalist in me says that this is not likely. When you have a group of people who are this radical, and this driven to cause you harm, and to kill your people, you're not going to stop them every single time. It's sad, but true. At some point in time, we'll get attacked again, and we'll have more suffering. Unfortunately, that's the way it is in the world today. When you have a person, or persons who are intent on giving up their lives to take yours... That's a hard force of nature to stop.

The question has been asked a lot lately though. Are we safer? I'd say, absolutely not. Why? Here's my take on it.

For years on end, the more radical people of the Muslim belief have been telling their followers for years on end that America is the "great Satan", and that we want to subjugate people of the Islamic belief to our Christian ways. Back in 1991, this was partially "proven" out during Gulf War I when we, and a rather large coalition force of many nations, combined to rid Kuwait of Saddam and the Iraqi invading and occupying army. Now, for the Kuwaiti people, this was a great thing that we, and other nations did for them. For others in the area, it was seen as sacrilegious to allow US and other foreign troops who were NOT Muslim to be based in Saudi Arabia, and in other Islamic nations. This pissed a lot of people off, namely one Osama Bin Laden. OBL wanted to come to the aid of Kuwait by raising a grand Mujahedein and to rid Kuwait of the Iraqis. The Saudi Arabian government told him rightly so to get a grip, we'll get it done with the Americans and the others. To allow the "infidels (that was us and other non-Muslim countries)" into Saudi Arabia where the holiest of holy Muslim shrines are, was tantamount to the coalition forces being an invading army.

Flash forward to 2003. We invade Iraq. And now, now for the negative nilly's who have been preaching against the US for years on end about the whole stupid great Satan thing, we have proven them right in the eyes of their followers. We have invaded an Islamic nation, and are occupying it. Not only are we doing that, but we're currently building permanent bases in Iraq, and we're not leaving for a long time to come. As in, never. We're setting up shop there for the foreseeable future. Now, we have holy warriors of Islam declaring a Jihad on us because of it. And now, now we've provided terrorists with the best training grounds possible. Yes, an entire country filled with American soldiers for terrorists to bomb, shoot at, maim, and kill. We've fufilled the crazy rantings and ravings of radical Muslim clerics.

World opinion of what the US has been doing in Iraq has been negative from day one, and let's face it, it's not getting any better. Terrorist attacks are up over 400% since we invaded Iraq in 2003. And increasing as we speak. Many American soldiers have been killed invading and occupying a nation that posed no significant threat to the United States' national security. Many more innocent people have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doin' a heck of a job Bushie! Heck of a job... Look, you're still more likely to die walking across a busy road than you are from a terrorist attack. You're also more likely to die taking an overdose of aspirin or Tylenol, but we don't see the Bush administration trying to scare us with those facts. Oh no, they're turning the country into a bunch of crazed people who think that terrorists are hiding in every town, on every corner, waiting to get you. Damn they suck. Our once free and open society is increasingly being closed down. Our civil liberties are slowly being taken away. In the name of what? Security they say. You know, I've thought about this on and off for a long time now. I'd much rather be killed by a terrorist bombing than to give up ANY of my civil liberties and freedoms. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks like that, and we're being hijacked by the people who are supposed to be protecting those freedoms and liberties.

And remember, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "Opposition to tyranny is patriotic."