Bush doctrine

I've haven't gone to bed yet and it's only 12.30am so it's still yesterday.

As it was/is Saturday I paid little attention to jobseeking. I had a lazy day. I popped out in the afternoon to get a chain tool for my bike but I'll save the repair job for another day. It'll give me something to do tomorrow.

I spent the evening at some friends' house where we watched Recount (and had beer, hot dogs and toasted marshmallow Graham Crackers). I'd followed the 2000 election fairly closely, or as closely as I could without internet access at work - I used what we called "newspapers" and "television news". Without having a Democrat Party bias it was a reminder of how the world/America was scammed by the result in Florida. Would Bush still have won if all the votes had been counted? What would have happened in the world if George Bush had been unsuccessful? It seems very unlikely that the Iraq War would have happened at all because, from what I read of Bob Woodward's account in Plan Of Attack the Bush Administration had every intention of going to war with Iraq from the outset.


It was inferred that Iraq may have had some kind involvement with 9/11 when, in fact, the opposite was true. I wonder if 9/11 would have happened had a Democratic president been in office. It wouldn't change fundamentalist Muslims opinions' of Israel and America's support but Bush's hostile attitude can't have helped. Not only that, warning signs were ignored. The ignorance approached arrogance. Could those near 3000 lives have been saved? It's pure speculation and deserves greater study than I can give at this time on a Saturday night. I shall try and give myself a few days to write Bush's political obituary.