“Afghanistan is slipping back into chaos, 
Pakistan is one coup away from becoming a radical Islamic state with nuclear weapons, Iran is closer to a nuclear arsenal, and Iraq has become a recruitment poster for terror. … A new document may get the administration through the next news cycle, but it will not win the war on terror.
“We need to change course, not more of the same.”
“Bush warns of Iraqi caliphate,” Sept. 5, 2006
“In five years since our nation was attacked, al Qaeda and terrorists it has inspired have continued to attack across the world. They’ve killed the innocent in Europe and Africa and the Middle East, in Central Asia and the Far East, and beyond. Most recently, they attempted to strike again in the most ambitious plot since the attacks of September the 11th  a plan to blow up passenger planes headed for America over the Atlantic Ocean.
“Five years after our nation was attacked, the terrorist danger remains.”
Whoever said war is hell didn’t know the half of it, because in those days President Bush and his neocon crusaders hadn’t been invented yet.
Having failed to convince the public the mission was accomplished; that great progress was being made but the nasty old liberal media just wasn’t telling about it; and then, thanks to Vice President Dick Cheney, that the insurgency was in “the final throes,” Bush & Co. now, with an election coming up, is trying to sell a twist on Franklin Roosevelt’s famous line:
The only thing we (Republicans) have to fear is not enough fear itself.
“Five years after our nation was attacked, the terrorist danger remains.â€Â
Agreed. And who, pray tell, is to blame for that? Who failed to get Osama? Who failed to catch the anthrax terrorist(s)? Why does half the country think Saddam had a hand in 9/11? How can an entire city’s population be left to get killed by a known threat while the president plays geetar?
Even the one success he mentions isn’t even one of ours; that was the British.