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Reading the total cost of the Bush Administration's serial debacles is sobering stuff.
What further beggars the imagination is that the American Public voted this man in not once but TWICE. Mostly on the basis that he was the kinda guy you would want to have a beer with. Kerry in '04 wasn't perfect sure, we rejected him 'cos he was a "flip-flopper". In hindsight, seems to me the willigness to change one's mind was exactly what we needed. But nope, Americans love someone who is a "decider" who is determined to "stay the course" until we can declare "mission accomplished"!
George Bernard Shaw wrote that "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” In Bush, the American public got exactly what they wanted. A resolute man in uncertain times. And it has cost America dearly.
