A summary of the war on terror

This seems like a pretty good summary of the war on terror. By Sgt Major Myers at www.dailykos.com. He describes it as "What part of failure don't you understand Mr. Bush?"

Daily Kos: What part of failure don't you understand Mr. Bush?:

"On September 11, 2001 a foreign terrorist group called al Qaeda based out of Afghanistan attacked the United States.

The United States responded initially by identifying the terrorists and invading Afghanistan in order to find and destroy the terrorist and the government supporting them.

For personal, ideological, and monetary reasons the President of the United States ordered the American military to invade a country that had absolutely nothing to do with either the attacks on the United States or al Qaeda.

Iraq and the war there now serve as a training ground for al Qaeda and have cost the lives of thousands of Americans and Iraqis with the numbers mounting daily.

The monetary cost of the war in Iraq is nearing $2 trillion dollars for the American taxpayers.

The head of al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, is still alive and at large and making threats against the United States.

The Taliban are a reemerging force in Afghanistan with violence in that country escalating.

Drug production and exporting in Afghanistan is at an all time high and much of the country is still controlled by war lords.

Iraq is in chaos with a collapsing and virtually totally destroyed infrastructure, with unemployment hovering around 70%, hospitals operating under primitive conditions, electricity on for only a few hours a day, and oil production near zero.

Al Qaeda is using Iraq as a training ground for terrorist.

The President of the United States is using the war on terror to justify eavesdropping on the communications American citizens.

The President of the United States is using the war on terror to justify torturing enemy combatants. "