Will we be fooled again?

Today I read in the Sept. 10 Parade Magazine about a retired police officer in New York who lost his son in the 9/11 attack. The man said he wanted revenge after his son was killed and described how he got the US military to put his son's name on bombs dropped on Iraq.

Since the president had blamed 9/11 on Iraq, the former police officer was like many Americans in saying he was, "insane with wanting to get even, (and) was willing to believe anything." The man was shocked many months later when President Bush then said "We've no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in September 11."

Like a huge majority of Americans who now realize that Bush and Republican Party Congress leaders lied about why we invaded Iraq, the former police officer was plainly angry at being used. He said, "the government had exploited my feelings of patriotism."

And now, just like before the Congressional elections of 2002 and the presidential election of 2004, Bush - probably directed by his Svengali Rove - is using the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attack to spin up fear of terror which in turn helps some voters accept his exceedingly bad record in all other areas of presidential and global leadership.

Yes, because the 2006 congressional election is two months away, George W. Bush wants to appear focused on terror and not the civil war he created in Iraq. Hopefully, the American people will not be fooled for the third time.