From outside the box

So it's official that Bush lied us into war. Nothing new to those of us who have been trying to say this all along. Back when the lies started, we were called unpatriotic for bringing up the possibility that he might be lying! Could it be that the blind patriots, the majority who never questioned the motives of Bush and his regime, are the ones who are unpatriotic? Look where your blind patriotism has gotten us. Trillions of dollars deeper in debt, hundreds of dead civilians....oh never mind, I feel like I'm replaying a broken record.

So now we are falling into a recession and the republicans are still spouting that the Bush tax cuts were good for the economy. Allow me to be a broken record again....As I have said repeatedly....Because of those tax cuts we had to barrow trillions of dollars. Bush has almost tripled the national debt in 7 years. Last year 19% of every tax dollar collected went to pay on the interest alone of that debt. 30% of every tax dollar collected went to the military. What we need to do now to ward off this recession is to start spending big bucks on infrastructure, and we don't have big bucks. We will have to barrow the big bucks to do this. The more we barrow the more interest we will pay, the more interest we pay and the longer this 2 billion dollar a week war rages on, the more we will have to barrow and the more we barrow....well you see what I mean. Nasty cycle. A true leader should get us out of this kind of cycle, not make it worse. Bill Clinton lowered the national debt and left office with a surplus, something that no republican president of our era has accomplished.

George Bush should get credit for the great economy we've enjoyed since he has been president. But we must keep in mind that anybody can create a great economy by barrowing trillions of dollars. And just as he should get credit for the great economy we've had, he should also be blamed for whatever fallout comes down the road for almost tripling our national debt. Bush should also get credit for the fact that we have had no terrorist attacks on our soil since 9-11....just as he needs to take the blame for more Americans dying at the hands of terrorist overseas than died on 9-11.

The surge in Iraq has made things better. Democrats need to admit that. Here's why I think they don't. To say that the surge has helped sounds like your saying the war is justified. This mega mess in Iraq cannot be justified by a surge that helps the situation. The situation never should have existed in the first place! You can't take a bucket of crap and throw a rose on top of it and say it's something other than a bucket of crap. Bush wants us to hold our noses and focus on the rose. That's why I think the democrats are not saying much about the surge.