I don't know that I can, SINSULL.

It's just something I've felt for a long time now. About two years. I've never thought that Bush could have been elected on his merits. Demonstrably, he has none. He was a failed oil businessman: put a company that was given to him into the red. He had no military record to speak of, and other than a father who'd been President, what is there about him to like? He was elected by BIG money, and once he got in office he began to change the very substance of American law. His attempts to change the way America work have been largely successful.
On his watch, the USA has sunk into a massive debt from which it may not be able to recover. All of these are observations, and I don't doubt there will be people along to argue with every proposition/postulate in this paragraph. AND, damned near everything from now on is circumstantial.

In chaos is opportunity. People have known this for ages. Whether by chance or design, 9/11 happened. The bin Laden family (en masse) was allowed to depart the USA and in the aftermath, America was driven to a frenzy and incited to allow their C-in-C to mobilize the military and invade Iraq. The evidence that Iraq was responsible for the attacks on the US was always flimsy, but it was credible, because it came from agencies charged and entrusted with the protection of the US as a country. Defying the UN, the US took as its 'Coalition of the Willing' the UK, Spain and Bulgaria. (In the Gulf War, there were close to twenty countries that got into it with the Iraqis over their invasion of Kuwait.) Not so this time, but that didn't matter. Iraq was invaded. Meanwhile, bin Laden was hunted and the press was full of reading and the news with pictures meant to inflame the people of the USA. The whole approach worked. As 9/11 sank into the background, allegations of sloppy security were leveled against Bush. As the Boss, the buck stopped on his desk. But that flak was absorbed by the group with which Bush had surrounded himself. Then Katrina.

It was a horrible time for the US and its people, especially the people in New Orleans. (Interesting to note that fifty search and rescue folks from Vancouver, BC, were in New Orleans doing SAR before the head of FEMA was even aware there was a problem. And we are finding now that Blackwater (a mercenary group made up of ex Special Forces types) were doing 'security' work in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina nad the flooding. THAT is the responsibility of the legitimate armed forces of the USA.

The Homeland Security Act was implemented by what seemed to be a castrated Congress. It has the potential to be extremely repressive legislation. The fact it hasn't be yet just means, IMO, that the time is not right for it to be used to an extreme. But the laws are on the books, and when soemone decides they're needed, there they are. Ready and available.

One of the most powerful organizations in the world (that people are aware of) is the World Bank. It has the ability to change whole countries with simple yeas and nays. Who becomes the President of the World Bank? None other than Paul Wolfowitz (who seems to have been overstepping his authority by getting raises for his girlfriend contrary to policy of the World Bank. Yet, he's still there.

Halliburton: Who the hell gives no-bid contracts to companies just because? And who was a former CEO of Halliburton?

There are too many unanswered questions, IMO. Too much chaos. And even now, when there SHOULD be investigations into the actions of the whole damned Executive branch of government, AND investigations into the Judiciary, very little is happening. The USA has sunk into a miasma of apathy. There has been an 'outsourcing' of torture (I hate that term, because it seems to distance the people who do it from the crime they commit in the name of the American people) and many other illegal acts done in the name of 'security'. The change people have FINSALLY come to see they need is quite a way off. Yes, some good people are running, but why would it be in the best interests of the group that got Bush into power to allow any of the 'good' candidates to take power? I feel that something is rotten. If it comes to pass, it will be on the heels of a 'terrorist' attack in the mainland US. It would have to involve great loss of life and allow the government immediately to bring all the legislation already on the books into play. I think the US would see mass arrests, and with the right to suspend habeas corpus, there would be little people could do about any of it. Behind the scenes, the US is not the country it was ten years ago. It now has laws that are Draconian. They simply await Executive Order to be enacted. The boys have been very busy taking care of business while the public has concentrated on an undeclared war in Iraq, and bad guys have taken control of what was one of the finer democracies in the world.

What's next? I have no idea.