Unless the war on terrorism is as bogus as a three dollar bill or as profitably manipulative as the federal trust funds in Intragovernmental Holdings, comprehensive immigration reform should have been the first order of business after September 11, 2001, not five years later.

Nineteen terrorists entered our country, spent more than two years living in apartments and houses, opened bank accounts, got credit cards and driver’s licenses, watched television and went to movies, shopped, ate in restaurants, and lived like ordinary citizens while going to school to learn how to steer but not land large aircraft – and then, armed with box-cutters, brought us the horrors of 9/11.

What does it tell you about George W. Bush’s everlasting “war on terror” when Congress and the administration have done virtually nothing about our leaking borders for five years? Have we spent five years shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic? Are the nervous Nellie’s still pacing the floor and putting this subject off until after the 2006 midterm elections?

At the very least, we should have developed ways to keep track of people who enter our nation legally as the infamous “nineteen” did, ways to keep track of where these people are and what they’re doing, ways that are at least as good as tracking ex-convicts on parole and child molesters, even if it means implanting RIFDs in everyone coming here no matter what their reasons.

The fact that millions of people, regardless of where they came from, have entered our country illegally in the last five years should be grounds for impeachment. A president and commander-in-chief who does nothing and, in fact, opens our borders even further should be held accountable. For the man in charge of defense, doesn’t inaction border on treason? It's certainly worse than a sentry falling asleep at his post in time of war.

And how can we even think of punishing people who have come here illegally when we’ve done little to stop it, when decades of permissiveness have established a precedent, when we seldom enforce existing immigration laws? To the “illegals,” it’s become a game of hide-and-seek. If you don’t succeed the first time, try and try again. And, just as childishly, when our House finally decides to spank them, millions of these lawbreakers take to the streets to demand their “rights.”

Everyone in the country should realize that there’s something very, very wrong after nineteen terrorists entered our country and brought us the death and destruction of 9/11 and we did nothing to secure our borders. How could we ignore something so obvious?

It even implies that George W. Bush and his cohorts might have been complicit in the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, that they were working in collusion with Osama been Forgotten, and that’s how they knew another attack was not in the making. Either that or they welcomed a new attack through avenues other than airlines where we’ve spent billions on inspections. What’s to keep them from attacking our water and food supplies, heating and ventilating systems, railroads and trucks carrying all sorts of dangerous materials, or using our own vast supplies of weapons of mass destruction against us?

After 9/11, there is no excuse for leaving our borders wide open or encouraging illegal migration under the idea that “our economy depends on” cheap slave labor.

Now, we’re supposed to panic because North Korea is developing nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. First, the man CNN calls “the most powerful man in the world” labels North Korea part of the “axis of evil.” Then he lied us into the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq where we used weapons banned and condemned by the Geneva Convention and War Crimes Tribunal. And now, we’re threatening war on Iran, the other leg of the axis.

What would you do if threatened in this manner? There’s more reason to believe that a relatively poor third world nation like North Korea has gone to the trouble and expense of developing and demonstrating nuclear capability strictly as a defensive measure than there is that they intend a suicidal preemptive strike against the richest and most powerful nation in the world, a nation that's less likely to attack anyone that might bite back. During the Cold War this was called "nuclear deterence."

Meanwhile, George W. Bush continues with his objective to use space for weapons of mass destruction and to build mini-nukes that can be used by troops in the field. And he has promised to help India, a country that already has “the bomb,” to build the same thing Iran claims to want – peaceful nuclear energy.

This bit of foreign policy arrogance can be chalked up with America’s backing out of almost every international humanitarian treaty from the Geneva Convention to the Kyoto Conference and including the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act.

Is it any wonder that the people of the rest of the world, including most of our allies, view the United States as the greatest threat to world peace? George W. Bush has his finger on the greatest nuclear stockpile in history and we are still the only nation to have used these weapons.

When we should be at the forefront and leading the charge to eliminate “weapons of mass murder,” isn’t it ironic that the richest most powerful nation in the world is living on borrowed money and slave labor while supporting more than 725 military bases on foreign soil, condoning torture while building more of these weapons and bases, and cannot afford corruption free solutions for its own cities, people, and territories struck by natural disasters?

Can we really tolerate and afford another two and-a-half years of Bush and his cronies? We can get rid of most of his supporters in the House and Senate this November, but will we just replace them with democrats who are much the same and can't even find issues to campaign on? Or will Bush, the man who considers himself above the law with "signing statements" on almost every new law that crosses his desk, simply declare himself president-for-life like the leader of other rogue banana republics?

Look at what we've become in the last few years and ask yourself who has profited. Is it you, or is it Halliburton, illegal immigrants, and the New World Odor?