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You keep missing the big picture, John.

We embark on a crusade that makes a mockery of everything this country
traditionally has stood for, imprison people without due process,
follow our own citiznes around peering and prying into library reading
lists, etc.....and you continue to declare every day with fewer than
the prevailing average number of innocent people killed as "good news".

Good news will be when we get serious about dismembering the
organization that already attacked us,

You first need to dismember the governments of the countries that are
supporting them.

not when we continue down some
unrelated list of people and nations who just might maybe, somehow,
some way, someday, attack us in the future. (Taken to its logical
extreme, that includes everybody).

The large majority in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Egypt, etc. are happy that
they're being given the chance to vote in democratic elections. I'm sure
the same is true for folks in Iran and Syria. And we can thank Bush's
policies for giving them that chance.

The chance to choose their leaders fills them with hope rather than
despair...which is good, because despair is what breeds terrorism.




Give me liberty or give me death? For too many folks that has become
"Forget about liberty. Give me an absolute assurance my family won't be
attacked by a terrorist and I'll volunteer to set fire to the Bill of
Rights"

Sign me up.



"People who are willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither."

OK Mr. Franklin. The problem with that statement is that the US has a
history of trading liberty for security in times of war.