Bush can't afford to win the 'woah on terra'. It's the only thing he's got going for himself.

From the Existentialist Cowboy:

There is, in fact, no evidence whatsoever that Bush ever killed, captured, or brought to justice even one bona fide terrorist in Iraq and —most certainly —none of those killed by the US in Iraq had anything whatsoever to do with the events of 911. Even George W. Bush recent admitted that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 911 but not before he allowed a terminally gullible American public and a sycophantic corporate media to indulge the delusion and spread the lie for years.

In normal times, that would have gotten a President impeached. These are not normal times. These are times that demonstrate a second very important reason Bush has lost the war on terrorism. These are Orwellian times and terrorism is a perpetual war. Bush has lost this war because he dare not win it and cannot afford to win it. It's the only issue he polls well on; without it, he's finished. It is tragically ironic that the future of humankind may very well depend upon the infamously short American attention span inuring a jaded public to a demagogue who is rapidly approaching the limit to which he can ratchet up a rhetoric that millions have already tuned out.

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Bush dare not win his war on terrorism because it just might turn out to be as fraudulent as everything else about his failed and miserable administration.

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