[Anyone] we've lost the war on terror:

[Thos Myers]

For the record, 2,703 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq.
Sixty-one have died during the month of September, amounting to just a bit
more than two per day. Twenty thousand soldiers have been wounded, with
the most common form of debilitation being brain injuries. Some of these
brain injuries come from direct impact from a bullet or shrapnel, but most
are caused by explosions that cause the brain to be shaken violently
within the skull and helmet.

The Bush administration, its officials in the Pentagon and the Republican
Congress have responded to this trend by slashing funding for the Defense
and Veterans Brain Injury Center.

We're gonna secure and protect America, said the man. We will torture with
impunity and gather from those agonies great swaths of useless and false
information. That useless information will be spread far and wide by the
Bush administration as it scrambles to prove that it knows what it is
doing while a midterm election showdown looms. Americans will be made to
tremble with fear, fulfilling the greatest desire of any living terrorist.
Our leadership, in effect, does their work for them.

Meanwhile, these actions fuel the very extremism our "War on Terror" is
supposed to thwart, putting the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi
citizens, as well as you and me, at greater risk. Trenches, walls and
barbed wire are erected around Baghdad, serving perhaps as a hint of what
to come on the American mainland. How long will it be before the "bunker
mentality" takes over on our streets and cities? The Army, in the process,
is falling apart.

History does not blink. Future generations will look to these times and
learn what it looks like when a great nations falls to tatters, one brick
at a time. Matters are not yet beyond recovery, not yet, but we are close
to a precipice deeper and more deadly than our worst imaginings. Few
options remain available to us, a change of leadership being the most
obvious among them. We are almost out of turns.

quoted from:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606J.shtml

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