Sting in the Bush
02/05/07 15:50 | Personal
Bush
Four years on from the day President Bush stood under a banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” while claiming “major combat operations” were over, the everyday situation in Iraq proves how wrong he was. In the aftermath of 'Shock and Awe' where the US tried to impress the world with their military technology and firepower, he is now as trapped by his ego as he is by the situation he created.

The cost has been massive. So far, more than 3,350 of his own countrymen have been killed. The financial cost has already exceeded 400 billion dollars. Things are not improving - last month rated as the sixth deadliest month for US fatalities since the conflict started in 2003.

President Bush had sold the conflict to the world as being a war on global terror but according to figures released by the US State Department, terrorist attacks worldwide have increased by 25% and the number of fatalities caused by terrorism in the last 12 months has risen by 40 per cent.

Even a child knows that it is a dangerous thing to kick a sleeping hornet's nest; when they are disturbed, they fight back, and you get badly stung!!
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