Since then, in an attempt to convince us that things couldn’t be groovier with the impossible-to-define “war on terror,” Bush, self-serving asshole that he is, has twisted the truth into so many different shapes it’s beginning to look like that pretzel that almost choked him into a coma during a football game.

So, since he probably won’t get a chance to mention it any time soon, it needs to be pointed out that 4,370 coalition troops - that would be 4.370 actual human beings with actual families - have died so far during this obscene fiasco, with no end in sight. And God only knows how many innocent civilians died right along with them. Some reports estimate it’s in the hundreds of thousands.

During his very historic, horseshit-defining speech, Bush also stated bluntly, “In the battle of Afghanistan, we destroyed the Taliban, many terrorists, and the camps where they trained.”

Gee, that sounds great, too, except that, in 2007, we lost 232 coalition troops in Afghanistan. Our troop presence there has grown from 8,000 in 2003 to 31,000 right now…undoubtedly because there’s not much action out there, and everything’s been taken care of. So you can go back to sleep.

Kind of makes you wonder who’s in those coffin’s doesn’t it?

Paul Tatara