This just in: Global terrorism rates are higher than any time since 1985. Thanks, Dubya!
Let’s be clear: The obliteration of the National Counterterrorism Center report merely goes to prove what so many of us already know — that BushCo’s brutish and borderline traitorous actions since they leveraged 9/11 to blatantly screw the nation have done exactly nothing to stem the tide of terrorism — and, in fact, have, by most every measure, apparently increased the threat of terrorism. In other words, the world is a more dangerous place because of George W. Bush. Is that clear enough?
Let’s put it another way: Under Bush, in the past five years, the U.S. has made zero new friends. But we have made a huge number of new and increasingly venomous enemies. And no, they don’t hate us because of our malls, Dubya. They don’t hate us because of our freedoms. They don’t hate us because of our low-cut jeans and our moronic 8 mpg Ford Expeditions or our corrupt Diebold voting system that snuck you into office.
They hate us, George, because of our policies. Anti-Muslim. Pro-Israel. Oil-uber-alles. Anti-U.N. Anti-Kyoto. Anti-planet. Pro-war. Pro-insularity. Pseudo-swagger. Bogus staged “town hall” meetings stocked with prescreened monosyllabic Bush sycophants. Ego. Empire.
Mark Morford, SF Gate ( more. . .)