Truespeak

George W. Bush March 8, 2005:

"The theory here is straightforward: terrorists are less likely to endanger our security if they are worried about their own security. When terrorists spend their days struggling to avoid death or capture, they are less capable of arming and training to commit new attacks. We will keep the terrorists on the run, until they have nowhere left to hide."

Osama bin Laden on November 1, 2004:

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. [...] So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."

Could it be that we're playing their game? As I write this, the cost of the war in Iraq, according to the counter on the left side of this site, is approaching $155 billion. That's $155 billion that's not being spent on our actual security here at home. Our nuclear and water facilities are still not sufficiently protected. Our borders are still very porous. The majority of cargo coming into this country is still going unscreened. All the while, our military is spread throughout the Middle East and unable to meet it's recruiting goals back home. Plus, our budget is running in the red and record deficits are predicted for the future.

So I want to know, "Who's running this show?" It certainly doesn't look like us.