While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush telling Public Broadcasting System television interviewer Charlie Rose, he is no longer counting the numbers of Iraqi citizens killed in car bombings or suicide bombings because to do so would show that “the surge” was not working: “If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory.”

       [restored 4/6/2024]