The Bush Administration, mainly Bush and Cheney, seem to want us to believe it's wrong to criticize the war and the reasoning for the war. Your criticism isn't wrong, you're just wrong for criticizing. They say it sends the wrong message to the enemy. So? Who cares what the enemy thinks?

I don't like it when people rule by fear. Yes, there are terrorist out there who want us dead. But every time there is a political opportunity to use it, the Bush Administration seems to say the sky will fall if you don't do what they want you to do. Many people actually believed that if they voted for Kerry last election we all would die.

And I really don't like when somebody questions something the Bush Administration has done or will do the Bush Administration starts questioning their patriotism and suggests it's just irresponsible to question and criticize. Does anybody else see what's wrong with this? Anybody else tired of the mind-games and manipulation?

I am not saying the Bush Administration is down right evil or completely corrupt. That would be irresponsible. I am saying that there are some flawed people in it who can not see that they are flawed. Let's take the war for example. I think it happened because of one of two reasons. One is just plain ole' incompetence on the part of more than a few members of the Bush Administration. Two, and probably more likely reason why the war happened, they saw what they wanted to see and acted on it probably thinking they were acting on the best interests of America. And maybe they also thought about the best interests of more than a few business. War is good for business. Either one, they're really, really wrong right now. And they refuse to admit that and take responsibility.

Bush just recently said the democrats in Congress knew exactly the same stuff he did. So he's basically saying the democrats were as wrong as he was and as wrong as his Administration was. But what he's saying doesn't seem like it could be true. How can Congress know as much as the President and Vice President when both men have access to classified reports that Congress doesn't even know exists? Bush also said the only person falsifying intelligence about the war was Saddam himself. Does that mean the CIA and US Government has cleared Ahmed Chalabi? I don't remember hearing anything about them doing that. And what about the falsified Italian intel about Saddam buying material for a nuclear weapon program? Did we clear the Italian source of that intel as well?

Maybe we need to start asking how come Bush doesn't have all the facts which includes the facts on the incorrect pre-war intelligence, the CIA Valerie Plame leak, and FEMA and hand-picked Michael Brown's poor role in Katrina -- we haven't forgotten about that one. Of course, if we ask about those things, then we'd be wrong, irresponsible, and unpatriotic. And it would also send the wrong message to the enemy.  ¶ 5:28 PM