It's time to say it. It's past time to say it. Bush has failed. The unnecessary and badly managed invasion of a country that did not threaten us has - past tense - failed.
Our troops - badly supplied and badly led (by the political leadership of the Pentagon and White House, not their professional, military command chain) from the beginning - are dying and fighting for nothing other than Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld's arrogance and pride. Every day they spend in Iraq makes the U.S. national security weaker and our citizens more vulnerable. Saying that we cannot afford to lose in Iraq is nonsense. We have already lost; we just haven't been told. Delusion is not a viable policy.
On the so-called War on Terror, which is an entirely different issue from the false war of choice in Iraq - Bush has also failed. His only interest in this so-called war has been to make Americans more vulnerable, therefore more afraid, therefore more likely to vote Republican, in the false belief that Republicans are tougher and thus better at keeping us safe.
On the contrary, Republicans not only have mismanaged the struggle against Islamic terrorists - increasing their numbers and power and reach and abilities - they have themselves become a threat to our rights and prosperity and way of life. Every new law the Republican Congress has passed in the last six years has been solely and completely for the benefit of corporate interests and government power. They violate the Constitution in their efforts to build themselves into a fascist regime, and they do so without any checks, balances, or oversight from either the other branches of government or the corporate propaganda machine that our news media have become.
So it is up to us, ordinary citizens, to state the facts simply and clearly, and communicate them to each other without the filter of the corporate media.
Bush and his corporate cabal have failed. They and their minions should be driven from office as soon as possible. Our troops should stop dying for nothing and come home. And someone, somewhere, should step up to fix the broken system of government, policy, security, and regulations that Bush sold to big business before he kills more Americans.
This is an extreme statement. The tragedy is that it is also true.