Just about the only person in the United States who doesn’t seem to realize how much George W. Bush has damaged this country by leading it into the Iraq War is George W. Bush himself. The people of America have tried almost everything we can think of to get this point across to George – internet petitions, staggeringly low polling numbers, the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report – but nothing seems to work. If anything, our attempts to reach George have produced the opposite effect of what we’ve been going for.

He accuses us of being unpatriotic or partisan. Or worse, as in the case of the Iraq Study Group Report: petulantly doing the opposite of what it recommended. Instead of attempting diplomacy and withdrawal, he opted for another surge, throwing more exhausted and ill-outfitted American troops on the ground. Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And for every American who dies, ten are wounded. The number of Iraqi civilians who have died is somewhere between 60,000 and ten times that. These people are going to continue dying unless we find a way out of this war, but none of this seems to matter to George. The Iraq Study Group put forward a good plan, but George didn’t just ignore it. He spitefully did the opposite.

So we thought to ourselves, maybe the real problem is how we’ve all been trying to get our message across to George. We’re obviously not speaking to him in a language he understands. We’re using words. The petitions are just long lists of words. The polling results are words. The Iraq Study Group Report was a whole book. George doesn’t like words. He treats the English language the same way he treats our armed forces.

No, what we need to send to George is a gesture. In fact, we need to send him as many gestures as possible. We all need to give George the finger. This, we believe, is something George will finally understand. The more of us, the better. Our goal isn’t just a hundred upraised middle digits. It’s millions. Let George know that you’re not just annoyed with him. You’re angry at him. You’re pissed at the way he’s treated our armed forces, our troops, our country. Take a picture of your upraised middle finger and submit it to us. Do it now. Then tell everyone you know about this site. The more people who do it, the more powerful our message will be.

Yes, what we’re proposing is juvenile. Childish, perhaps. But that just increases the chances the George will understand it. Even a person as insulated, stubborn and petulant as George W. Bush might understand that a couple million people giving him the finger means that something has to change.

Give George the Finger. Do it for America. Do it for the World.

Read, "A War Without Legs", by Sybil Adleman Sage