On This 25th anniversary of 9/11, It Is Hard to Remember What a Horrible President George W. Bush Was and How Creepy 9/11 and Post 9/11 America Was

Because the evil fascist lunatic currently serving as POTUS is just that much of a horror show, giving us new trauma constantly, with his endless indecency, his horrible inhumanity, his assaults on our intelligence and the constant blatant lying and destruction of the rule of law.

But-- it was in fact very bad after 9/11. There were serious fears of new attacks of all forms, including bioweapons like anthrax. There was a constant sense of dread, of not knowing what came next, and a worry that you could get in trouble from the state by looking too closely at 9/11 and questioning what happened. 

 And then the war drums for Iraq started beating, and all the blatant lies, and US soldiers sent into battle with gas masks and expecting WMD because they had been told so many lies.  

Then the war came, because there was no real way to stop the madmen in charge, and there was stupid "shock and awe" and acting like somehow this was retribution for 9/11. So dumb and obnoxious-- typical American BS. The war then took a fairly predictable course-- there was a fairly easy victory to take Baghdad and then get Saddam, but then a long slog dealing with the insurgency and the endless war that cost so many lives and took so much of our wealth. The torture scandals, The war crimes.

 Then tragic aftermath of Katrina and the 2008 financial crisis. 

There was just so much misery until Bush was gone and Obama took over and we sort of, finally, could put 9/11 behind us.

 

But we can never forget that 9/11 was awful, not only in what actually happened, but also that it FUCKING SEEMED TO BE AN INSIDE JOB AND THERE WAS NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR IT.

 

Finally, apart from the obvious reasons why the 9/11 attacks were tragic and bad, 9/11 also really set off 25 years of horrible political dominance by Republicans, who all reveled in being the worst people imaginable-- racists, pedophiles, planet raping ghouls, criminals, absolute gun nuts, Nazis, liars, propagandists, hypocrites, greedheads, Christo-fascists and violent women haters-- who did horrible things to the country every chance they could-- all egged on, every step of the way, by the dominance of rightwing media, especially FoxNews.