7 years ago 19 men hijacked 4 planes and killed 2,974 people.  Then the President, Vice President, 15 Cabinet Members, and other members of his Administration decided to pursue the leader of the organized attacks in the country he was located: Afghanistan.

Less than 2 years later, the same group of people decided to take advantage of the fear that blanketed the nation to wage a war in Iraq.  It took 1 lie to convince 77 Senators and 296 Representatives of the House to vote for Joint Resolution 114 in October of 2002.  Over 5 years later, this 1 lie, told by our President, has left over 4000 of our fellow Americans dead.

It took a terrorist network, lead by 1 man, several years to coordinate 19 men to end the lives of 2,974 people, and it took only 1 lie from 1 man, who was entrusted with the responsibilities to lead the American people and it’s armed forces to end the lives of so many more.  A man who had experience governing the people of a large state no less, so much for experience (unless his experience in Texas was also based on lies).

It’s sad.  Mass murders are sad.  Acceptable and anticipated casualties of war are sad.  If the Iraq war had happened in a single day, 9/11 would be dwarfed by any comparison of loss.

What isn’t sad is that you have the ability to vote for a man who has a lot less experience, in lying.  He also has a lot less experience in leading people, to war for oil which by it’s very nature will be depleted regardless of how many countries you conquer and people you kill. It’s sad if you don’t.