Never have so many people paid so dear a price for an opportunity so squandered:
Imagine, for a moment, what we could have done in those days, and months, and years after 9/11. ... We could have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in alternative sources of energy to grow our economy, save our planet, and end the tyranny of oil. ... Instead, we have lost thousands of American lives, spent nearly a trillion dollars, alienated allies and neglected emerging threats – all in the cause of fighting a war for well over five years in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
And we're still paying the price to this day. Gas prices are smothering the US economy, tanking the stock market, already over stretched families standing on the brink of financial ruin are being flung off into the abyss, and the exorbitant cost of oil enriches the very same cabals that attacked us in 2001. But to hear the two oil men in the Whitehouse and their protegé John McCain explain it, it's either the democrats fault, or a mental problem running rampant among whiny voters. Forget the ole 'are you better off than you were four years ago'? What I'd like to ask people is, do you think you'll be better off four years from now with another Republican in the Oval Office?