One of George W. Bush's professors at Harvard Business School said, "He showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago."

Exploiting a weakness in the U.S. Constitution, Bush became president in 2000 despite losing the popular vote. He ignored an August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief titled: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S. Then he used that attack -- along with some trumped up evidence of WMDs -- to justify an invasion into Iraq that killed thousands of people and cost trillions.

Now as Bush goes on his self-pity tour before he (hopefully) leaves office in less than a week, bin Laden is apparently still alive and enjoying a last laugh at Bush. Bin Laden's latest video blames Bush for weakening America which permitted Israel to invade Gaza. Bin Laden is partially right -- Bush has weakened America.

Terrorists can take down buildings and blow up a multitude of other things, but how about taking out the electronic infrastructure that the U.S. relies on more and more each day? Electronic infrastructure like financial and banking websites where tens of billions of transactions are logged every day, for both corporate and personal use?

The U.S. Government said yesterday that a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites may be coming from a radical Muslim group. However, officials said that the threat was unconfirmed and, at this time, seemed to pose no immediate danger.

A "Jihadist Web site" called for an attack on U.S. Internet-based stock market and banking sites in December, according to government officials, who in turn issued the alert. However, in what seems to have become the norm in these situations, a head at the Department of Homeland Security said that there is no information corroborating the threat. In addition, the alert was issued "as a routine matter."

It may seem routine until something happens, but it's a good thing for the Department of Homeland Security to announce a possible threat regardless. I can't imagine an attack on the websites of stock trading companies and financial institutions -- it could be disastrous.