"The fact is that our foreign policy was hijacked in the 1870's/80's by institutions that originally weren't even supposed to have a "right" to exist."

OK, more vagueness; followed by a lengthy paragraph that does nothing to explain why Bush is a war criminal and others (like LBJ) who by far did worse things never get a mention from you. No matter how you slice it; lives lost, corporate masters that were fed with war dollars, and a war waged with a nation that posed us no harm. LBJ comes out way ahead on the indignation scale. Why does he get a pass?

Your statement about 9/11 was callous and insensitive. You take no ownership, and haven't owned up to it. Your anti Bush obsession is way over the top because it isn't rooted in factual reality. If it were you would by crapping on LBJ's headstone every year on his birthday, because you can't give me the reasons you do for hating Bush, and then ignore his presidency. And I'll save you the trouble of giving me the stock Flab Teddy Kennedy style reply: "Well I once made a droll passing comment about LBJ that my grandfather often said while smoking a Cuban and having a cognac". Silence, or a passing comment does not equate with fanatical condemnation and assault, which is what you give Bush.