Measuring Stick

The horrible events of September 11th, 2001 resulted in a death toll between 2,752 and 2,986 depending on your source.

After that, President Bush declared a War on Terror that involved going after a man named Bin Laden in Afganistan and then a man named Hussein in Iraq. Bin Laden got away and Hussein is on trial. Some people questioned the reasons for going to Iraq (mainly because the people there did not attack the U.S.) and they were dealt with in various ways.

The President continued to insist that the best way to prevent such attacks by people who came from here, here, here and here was to continue to wage war in Iraq. He promised to keep another disaster from harming Americans and we gave him another term to prove it. As of today, 2,000 American soldiers have died because of this particular military strategy.

Soon after his second term began, Hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath asked the question: Can the President and his people truly protect us from natural disasters? And if not, how can they protect us from a military/nuclear disaster? Katrina, by the way, has claimed over 1,300 lives.

Some of our soldiers are coming home, but many that do are damaged physically or mentally. Hurricane Wilma has struck Florida, and FEMA seems to be late again. The Mayor of New Orleans fears that there isn't enough to make the city what it once was.

So many lives ruined that didn't have to be. Not counting 9/11, there are at least 3,300 people dead because of the White House's foreign and domestic policies. Policies that were supposed to defend us and keep us safe.

Sadly, the President doesn't believe those lives are enough. He believes the best way to solve the problem of the brick wall is to continuously have people ram into it, hoping that it will eventually crumble. Meanwhile, every soldier that dies in Iraq (and Afganistan) is one less soldier available to deliver aide and supplies to hurricane victims.