In the summer of 2001, the Bush Administration failed to heed the many warnings of an impending terrorist strike. In the wake of the 9/11 strikes they quickly rammed through Congress the most serious abridgement of our Constitutional rights since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
They also used the fear sowed by the strikes to launch the nation into a costly and unnecessary war in Iraq.
Fast forward. The Administration has again sat idly by, ignoring all the warning signs, as a financial 9/11 hit the country. But back to their old tricks, BushCo takes to heart the old notion that crisis and opportunity walk in the door, hand-in-hand.
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