THAT'S THE TICKET AND APATHY

I still don't understand why people aren't livid with the performance of this administration. And it's not bad enough that one fault is incompetence but another one is deception, a bad mixture for sure.

Lets recap what we're into.

We were under a terrorist threat long before we were hit on 9/11. Under this administration's watch we were warned by the"Daily Presidential Briefing" titled 'bin Laden determined to strike inside U.S' August 6, 2001.

so they bungled that one.

Right after that the world came together, I mean if you remeber, every body was in love with us in a unity to defeat the terrorists that took down the twin towers. We all agree on going to war in Afghanistan to capture bin Laden and bring him to justice. Then about the time we had an opportunity to capture him at Tora Bora we go to war with Iraq with a series of lies.

Rumsfeld said something to the effect that he knew there were WMD and he knew exactly where they were. Well, if he did there's not much comfort in that. That means there were WMD that we were unable to secure, I still don't think there were WMD, so it went from exactly knowing where they are to not knowing where in the world they are. Brilliant.

So, now we decide to go to war, and remember this the threat of' nuclear attack was imminent' -- Condoleeza Rice and the 'mushroom cloud', Rumsfeld and 'we know exactly where they are'. General Shinseki calls for, I believe, around 200-240,000 troops and Rumsfeld actually got upset and Shinseki was gone. Rummy figured around a 120,000. Why have military advisors if you aren't goin to use them? Like Cheney said we would be 'welcomed with flowers as liberators'. Wolfowitz and his 'the money from the oil fields will pay for the war and rebuilding Iraq.' Instead it's costing us. That's kinda like payin' to go to work. Pretty anti-productive.

So we go into this country like it's a John Wayne movie, and I remember reading at the time that out of everything televised the 'shock and awe' thing was the number one thing Bush had to watch. Then the 'mission accomplished' banner. Well, that wasn't our fault it was done by the armed forces. Seems this was the start of blaming the military for his blunders.

We went into Iraq to carry out a mission but what was and is the mission, that by the way we will stay there until it's achieved, is it finding WMDs? is it removing Sadaam Hussein? is it to spread democracy? is it to train them to defend their country? Now in President Bush's speech said we must stay on the mission and the mission is hunting terrorists. That's a perpetual mission. It's like having a war on hate.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to recognize that this is either incompetence on a major level or an agenda that we need not know about. I mean, look at the secrecy. Cheney should be in investigations about his using oil executies as advisors on setting energy policy. With the control these guys have they are the one responsible for bringing investigations against themselves. I know if I was my own judge I'd be innocent of wrongdoing. And they keep pushing the envelope, you're aware of gas prices, but we just accept it. It's called APATHY!!!!!!

We're on a MISSION FROM GOD. That's the ticket. And we say ho-hum.