5 years later.
Over 2300 dead, 16600 wounded later.
When it becomes apparent that we, as a nation, are $8,280,212,968,375 (
It goes up 2.1 billion per day) in debt, $247,000,000 from the war alone. (
It goes up over a thousand every passing second, and they're proposing $70 more)
And America FINALLY catches on.
Who knows how many of those killed on either side would have changed the world for the better. We never will. There is but one timeline, and George W. Bush has stuck his penis in that timeline's ear and skullfucked it.
The presidency of this one man, this autistic chimpanzee, has destroyed the remaining twines of my faith in our electoral system and the American people as a whole.
He was losing 48 to 52 when Fox declared him the winner. And thus, he won.
Today? His approval rating is 36%. He's working towards a world record. 68% believe he has no clear plan for the war. 57% believe he shouldn't have started it in the first place.
No one has a straight, honest answer to the question "What the fuck was the point?"
The only real purpose this has served is that of active empirialism in the name of Democracy.
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
- Mahatma Gandhi. Turning in his grave.
A parting note: Ray Charles died two months before Bush's second term, when it became apparent that he would be re-elected. Coincidence?