You, Over There.... Got a Question?

From the desk of Eric Alterman:

....It’s hard to say which is the best representation of what this war is doing to and has done to this country. Is it the lies that were told to get us into it? Is the fact that we are picking up innocent people off the street and torturing them? Is it that we have suspended the most basic civil liberties in our own country? Is it that the work of professional intelligence agencies has been corrupted? Is it that we have drawn resources away from the fight against Al Qaida which has completely regrouped? Is it that we are creating more terrorists? Is it that more than seven hundred Americans have been killed and thousands have been seriously injured? Is it that thousands of Iraqis have been killed but nobody is keeping an account of the numbers of their deaths? Is it that we are now more hated around the world than we have ever been? Is it that we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars while actually decreasing our security? Is it that we are doing all this while starving the most crucial homeland security programs? Is it that everyone who told the truth about what was being planned has been dismissed and seen their characters attacked? The usually soft-spoken and moderate intelligence analyst and author Thomas Powers does not exaggerate when he notes that Bush and the neocons have "caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history."

I wouldn't say that our most basic civil liberties are suspended, yet; after all, we can still write this stuff and only get return fire from our god-fearing and rapture-ready aunts and uncles. However I'll most likely not renew my blogger subscription following the reelection of Bush/Cheney in November because starting at that time the Bush Administration will have consequence-free reign over all that is good, fair and free. Civil liberties will become fond memories told to the young'uns around campfires at gatherings of survivors of the nuclear holocaust brought on by Bush going the one step too far.