The biggest lie that Bush has told:

The President repeatedly stresses that Americans are safer because we are fighting the terrorists “over there” so we don’t have to fight them here. That may have been true of our invasion of Afghanistan. But the overthrow of the Taliban should have been followed with skillful diplomacy and a more enlightened foreign policy. Iraq was and continues to be a distraction from our fight against multi-national jihadists. The very presence of an occupation force is the cause of the radicalization of many Muslim youths who are at the point when they are trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Filled with the passions of youth and frustrated by the restrictions of an ultra conservative religion they explode in what they see as righteous indignation and take sacred vows to drive the infidels out of the Nation of Islam. It may be true that they hold our licentiousness in contempt but not enough to make them want to blow themselves to smithereens in order to take us with them. Hatred alone will not provoke self-destruction. The biggest lie that Bush has told is his repeated assertion that the evil doers hate us because of our freedom, that liberty drives them to choose death.

By sending an army of crusaders into the heart of Islam Bush has aided and abetted the phenomenal growth of Muslim fundamentalism. The environment that the idle youth find themselves in is not exactly pregnant with possibilities. Few jobs and fewer educational opportunities provide the type of environment in which radicalism thrives. The measure of their desperation is their willingness to strap on the martyr’s vest or detonate an explosives laden vehicle while driving it. Put yourself in their shoes:
You’re 18 years old, can’t get laid, can’t get a job or the education to be able to get a job. You live in a 3rd world hell hole that’s governed by a corrupt oligarchy that gives decadence a sense of inadequacy. The heat is so intense that you feel like you live in a convection oven. Martyrdom starts sounding appealing when life on earth starts feeling like hell. Let’s see, 72 virgins waiting in Paradise and all you have to do is die while waging holy war, hmmm...