[sailingdog]

Good points Free...

Also, the ideas that the Bush administration has had, like the RFID passports, the TSA's general handling of airport security and such has been at best laughable. In the most recent "red team" penetration tests of airports, about 95% of the mock bomb/weapon devices made it aboard the plane. That's not very reassuring. The Bush regime would have far more credibility IMHO if they could find their ASS with their hands in the dark, but they can't.

The Bush administration also plays games with the Terrorist Threat level for purely political gain—which isn't something you generally see in countries that have a decent track record for dealing with terrorism, like the UK, Spain, Israel, Germany, etc.

Originally Posted by Freesail99

4000 dead soldiers is what is wrong to me. I can not wrap my mind around the concept that terrorist would rather fight an army with tanks and jets rather then some soft target anywhere in America.

Please explain to me, how that keeps them out of America or at least acknowledge that Bush did this entire war for his own personal glory/vision of what is right and used whatever misinformation that he could to get others to believe in him. "I'll make you proud Daddy" comes to mind.

EDIT: I forgot we went there to find WMD's when we couldn't find them we went to battle the terrorist.