What's gone wrong since 9/11/01?

Everything.

Bush has deceived the US public:

"President Bush can't ask us for $166 billion for Iraq while he runs record $500 billion budget deficits and doubles the national debt - all in order to give $300 billion a year in tax cuts over the next decade mostly to the best-off people in America."

Bush has destroyed long-standing international alliances, and not only with Europe. Latin America, like the rest of the world, reached out to the US in its time of grief. Now they understand that the so-called "War On Terror" is the world's greatest con job.

"Once upon a time, countries might have chosen to turn the war on terrorism into an opportunity to accelerate needed and crucial reforms, and to cooperate for the benefit of their own democracies. Then Bush started down
the path of going it alone..."

In Iraq today, innocent civilians are being "disappeared" just as happened in Pinochet's Chile.

"The American soldiers smashed through 68-year-old Ali Ahmed’s door at 2:30 in the morning..."

In the USA itself, citizen's rights are disappearing:

At home and abroad, hundreds, maybe thousands, of men are being held in camps and prisons by the military, by the CIA and by the justice department, incommunicado, without legal representation or hope of release, there to endure prolonged and terrifying interrogation. Alone, this is enough for the US government to place itself in contravention of the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which it is obligated to uphold. But that is not all. There is evidence that the US authorities have encouraged the use of torture and may indeed have participated in the torture of those men they believe to hold information on past and future terrorist attacks.

Bush has trashed myriad noble international treaties, including the Nuclear Non-Priliferation treaty, Kyoto, the International Criminal Court and even the Geneva convention. The US has been holding countless individuals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without charges, some for nearly two years now, yet it refuses to afford these prisoners the status of "POWs":

"It is a total travesty of justice and I think that's the view of most people around the world."

All this is being done at the behest of Big Business. Bush is a compliant stooge. Rampant capitalism rules the world, using terrorism as a justification for endless war and endless abuses of individual liberty. Orwell's vision has come to pass, albeit 20 years late.