In bullet points, for all you slackers out there:
1. Rumsfeld can't estimate the size of the "insurgency", but by all accounts, it's growing. As many as 40,000 "insurgents" with 200,000 part-time supporters.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-17-rumsfeld-insurgency_x.htm
2. Iraq is now THE place to train, if you want to be a 21st century terrorist.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-a-terrorist-spawning-ground-CIA-admits/2005/02/17/11086
09349394.html?oneclick=true
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=2679152
3. No WMDs have been found in Iraq to date, but Iran, North Korea, and a booming black market feature plenty of nuclear material. THOUSANDS OF TONS OF PLUTONIUM GOES "MISSING" EVERY YEAR.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16677109?source=Evening%20Standard
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=506177&page=1
4. Condoleeza Rice (Bush's proxy) believes the way to stem the tide of Terrorism is NOT merely stopping Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Ladin, but "transforming the Middle East." Into what, Condi, the battlefields of Armageddon?
http://us-politics.news.designerz.com/war-on-terror-is-more-than-al-qaeda-rice.html?d20050217
5. American soldiers continue to die every day in Iraq. No coffins are shown. No outreach is made. Thousands are coming back with serious injuries. Are they getting adequate health care? No.
They aren't even getting the medals they were promised.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asechold17021705feb17,1,7186048.story?coll=orl-n
ews-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2856698&nav=15MVVbON
6. Total cost of Gulf War I to the US: 61 Billion dollars.
Estimated Price tag of the current war in Iraq: 400 billion dollars.
Money promised to Tsnuami victims (250,000+): 350 million dollars
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=2005021704594814
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Cost
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10850726.htm?1c
7. Poppy production in Afghanistan (the source of Opium and Heroin) increased 64% in 2004.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=alm1ewIQVBOk&refer=asia
8. Abu Ghraib has still not been fully investigated, nor have other charges at Guantanamo fully been discussed. Mr. Gonzales, what is torture, and what isn't torture?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6988054/
- Iraqi civilian casualties thus far? Between 10,000 and 40,000. Acceptable numbers? http://www.theeastcarolinian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/03/4201aed03510b
- The President persists in a state-centric perspective on Terrorism. It's not Al Qaeda, it's Syria. It's not Hezbollah, it's Iran. It's not Islamic Jihad, it's North Korea.
The people most excited about detonating a dirty bomb in LA, NY, or Washington DC are laughing while the administration "talks tough" at "rogue states" in an invisible "axis of evil."
The Bush policy is actually forming alliances against us.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002182375_syria17.html
11. Security at US ports and airports, as well as packages sent via UPS and US Mail are still woefully, woefully behind.
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And the beat goes on....
So, congrats, Mr. Bush, your foreign policy is totally working.
To paraphrase Howard Dean, Americans are less safe now than they were before the start of the Iraq war.