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I was thinking of this after Will's explanation for the Truthout affair. He mentioned that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks he had posted a thread saying we needed to support Bush. I actually remember that thread as I had just found DU in the wake of those attacks. I agreed with him then. It never occured to me that Bush would do what he did. It never occured to me that instead of using 9/11 to unite the country and actually fight a sensible war against Bin Laden and ask the American people as a whole to sacrifice to make us less dependent on oil. Instead he not only decided to use 9/11 for a divisive domestic agenda he used it to justify a foreign policy that lost us any sympathy that 9/11 may have engendered.
The true cost here was of opportunity. We could have had a unified country that was truely safe, instead we have a divided country, a degraded military, and a hostile world to contend with. This is Bush's worst crime.
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