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The Case Against George W Bush
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED- THE RESULTS OF THE IRAQ WAR:

America's credibility is shattered. The administrations credibility is shattered at home and can no longer be trusted in matters of national security in a time when the need for confidence in our leadership is at a premium.

We have seriously harmed our relations with the world community and squandered its good will toward us following September 11.

We have undercut the real war on terror by draining badly needed recourses and by harming world cooperation in the effort.

We have given our real terrorist enemies another rallying cry as well as a place for recruitment and possibly even training.

We've shown other rogue nations that the best way to deter an American invasion is to acquire nuclear weapons, as North Korea has done.

We are stuck in a military quagmire for the foreseeable future with no clear way out.

As of September 4, 2004, the war and occupation has cost the United States approximately $130,953,200,000. As of September 3, 2004, the U.S. death toll is approaching 1000. The Iraqi civilian death toll is estimated at a minimum of 11,793 and a maximum of 13,802.