The economy here started going sour a year before Bush got elected. The crash of the over inflated dot.coms had much to do with it.
Then there was the attacks on 911, which had a great impact on what was already a weak economy.

The only 'civil rights violations' are that we have been detaining and deporting terrorist suspects. They are not citizens and are here illegally. In fact they could be shot as spies and saboteurs.

Whats all this about UN inspectors? Its been 12 years of this shell game in Iraq. It was time to end it after 911 and dismantle the Iraqi state.