Bushingrad

I was watching Lou Dobbs last night and I found this interesting:

In one count, of the 154 suicide bomber death notices posted on Islamic Web sites since August, 61 percent were Saudi and just 25 percent were Kuwaiti, Syrian and Iraqi, many believe connected to the terror network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. But pinpointing a precise number of foreign jihadists is an ongoing challenge to U.S. and Iraqi officials.

The military's rough estimate is anywhere from five to 10 percent of the insurgency. One senior American military official provided CNN with a nationality snapshot of fighters captured during Baghdad anti- insurgency push Operation Lightning. Of the 1,000 people netted, 50 were non-Iraqis, most from Sudan, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

OK, couple of interesting things here. 61% of the suicide bombers are Saudis. But they're our friends, right? I mean not all of the men who highjacked the planes that flew into the World Trade Center were Saudis. Clearly, Saudi Arabia is not our problem. No, the president likes to hold hands with his chums from Saudi.

Five percent of the 1000 people captured were foreigners. The rest were Iraqis. Now that we know we didn't go to Iraq for the WMD but to free the people I would really appreciate an explanation how we're fighting Iraqis to free Iraqis. We have "freed" the people of Iraq from running water and electricity, that's true. I suppose the argument could be made that by killing Iraqis you're freeing them from life but that seems a bit, well, STUPID.

Do we all remember during the 2000 campaign when this president said he would have a humble foreign policy? That he didn't believe in nation building. I know I'm being rude to bring up the president's own words to contradict him but what can you do?

By the way - the Taliban is re-forming (and I don't mean changing their ways) and another American was killed in Afghanistan yesterday, bringing the total killed to five in the past week.

So, we never finished the first war, we dashed into the second which President Bush said that major combat operations were over two years ago. At least two Americans are dying every day in Iraq and Rumsfeld says the Iraqi Insurgency is in its last throes.

Here's what I don't get. Why doesn't it bother anyone who voted for President Bush that he lied? Why don't they care that he said we were going to Iraq because they were a threat to us and they had WMD's. No one ever said in the build up to the war that we were going to create a democracy in the Middle East. No one said that we were going to free the people from the atrocities that we provided the weapons for Saddam to carry out. How can they just accept that we have revised history to fit the situation? Are we doing to rename Washington D.C. Bushingrad?