George Bush wishes the last seven years had been like lipstick on pig. Unfortunately, the world has taken a turn for the worse and Bush deserves much of the blame. More Americans have died in the two wars than on that fateful day. Innumerable people who were not America have been killed because of the reaction of the United States government. They are innumerable because we don't care to count them.

We should not be angry a radical fundamentalist militant Islamic jihad any more than we are with ourselves. It is not that we have become a murderous regime because of George Bush in the wake of those terrible attacks. Bill Clinton ordered bombs to drop on Afghanistan and Iraq too. The difference is in the scale. More innocent people are dying at our hands then ever before. The war in Iraq is slowly becoming one of the deadliest in terms of American casualties in our nation's history. The optimism that Afghanis felt at the removal of the Taliban is long gone.

Why does bloodshed beget bloodshed? We should not allow it. Not our country. Not in our name.