Let's review, shall we?

[Atticus]

It is seldom mentioned by the supposed "expert political commentators" who regularly "commentate" for pay on our MSM, but the White House was occupied during the 8 long years preceding the Obama Adminstration.

George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and a collection of morally-challenged wealthy bastards were at the helm during that long dark night and, with the unblinking support of the GOP Congressional "Me too, sir!" chorus, very nearly destroyed the America that most people presumed was cherished by ALL Americas.

Bush dropped the ball and allowed us to be blind-sided on 9-11-01.

That is a damn fact and no amount of historical revision should be allowed to obscure or soften it.

The smirking frat-boy ignored those who warned him of Bin Laden's intentions, but did take time to ridicule them for "covering their ass". The ONLY reason our initial military actions were successful---or even posssible---is that the Clinton administration had left Bush a blue-print for "rolling up" the growing threat called Al Qaeda: names, locations, contacts, maps and recommended strategy. They had developed this plan after the USS Cole was attacked, but thought it inappropriate to saddle the next administration, whoever that turned out to be, with prosecuting a war started in the closing weeks of the Clinton Adminisration. So, the detailed plan was left for Clinton's successor to use. Of course, Bush shelved it until 9-11-01.

But, the effort to kill or capture Osama was abandoned and he was allowed to escape through the mountains of Tora Bora to Pakistan. This was because Rummy and the other PNAC pinheads had decided that, hell, Iraq was a MUCH better place to start a war. It was ruled by a certified monster, it was "target rich" and---it had LOTS of OIL!!!

After several months of orchestrated bullshit, the lying SOBs succeeded in "catapulting the propaganda" and the addled, inattentive and frightened were primed for the beginning of "shock and awe". Remember that bullshit?

I could go on ad nauseum, but suffice it to say that not ONE of the two dozen or so stated excuses for launching a war have proven true or, in some cases, feasible. There were NO "Weapons of Mass Destruction"; NO "unmanned drones that could reach our East Coast in 45 minutes"; NO "yellow cake"; NO evidence of cooperation with the 9-11 suicide bombers; NO LEGALLY SUFFICIENT BASIS TO INVADE IRAQ---PERIOD, Goddammit!

In furtherance of this illegal war, the war criminals that comprised most of the Bush "inner circle", engaged in crimes against the American people: illegally searching their homes, reading their mail and emails and, in some cases, imprisoning and torturing them without so much as a nod in the direction of the Constitution.

We were introduced to "free speech zones" which were necessary to insure that the lapdog media didn't accidentally show those of us carrying decidedly uncomplimentary signs and shouting appropriately obscene slogans at the Boy Who Would Be King".

Oil and coal companies were essentially told to do whatever the hell they decided was most profitable without regard to worker safety or our environment.

Banks and insurance companies were encouraged to invest real money (mostly borrowed or belonging to investors) in outlandish, fictional, never-heard-of-it-before-I-bought-some "assets".

"What could possibly go wrong?" became our unspoken national economic policy, just as "Yee-haw" became the template for our foreign policy.

All of this happened BEFORE Barack Hussein Obama kicked John McCain's ass in November, 2008 and stepped in to try to pull us back from the brink of international disgrace, domestic meltdown and---I will say it, without apology to Godwin or anyone else---fascism.

The best characterization I've read of the bitching and moaning going on now among the pissants who LOST the last THREE elections is still this: The same kids who filled the house with old newspapers, robbed the batteries out of the smoke detectors, neglected to recharge the fire extinguishers, filled their squirt guns with gasoline and then played with matches are now complaining that Obama's fire department should have arrived before it was called and is using way too much water in its efforts to save the house.

We should not only remember the above, we should make damn sure no one else is allowed to forget it.

I'm done.