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Well over a trillion dollars has been spent to ensure 9/11s don't happen and to this date there as not been one resignation or a single dismissal, a pension stripped.

You would reduce 9-11 to a government mistake? We train our police, but can't possibly prevent all crime. A country this size that cherishes freedom, a determined bad guy, especially one fed on hate, can get past any roadblock - once.

This administration is doing good work re. the war on terror. We haven't had a second attack...against the will of our enemies who want American mass-casualties. The America people aren't panicked because they know this administration is made up of responsible, hard working adults - good people doing very tough work under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

Our conservative military leaders are giving the world lessons in the free market economy, individual rights (and responsibilities) - freedom daily. I would argue that a few good men in this administration and this military are what stands between freedom and tyranny in the world today...

..in spite of the wilfull mischief of the powerful, unaccountable, partisan... press.

We're the good guys. We are taking out the bad guys, and those risking their lives to do so put up the neon "Welcome" sign over the nation of Iraq - the 'terrorists roach motel' (with themselves as bait) and take out the bad guys daily - NOT waiting for them to come to America. L.T. Smash is volunteering for a thankless job in heat and sand and under fire to defend the lives and freedoms of even those who disagree with him.

Police state? Those who defended Saddam Hussein and blamed America are not a crowd you could trust to defend (respect) your life, your $$$, your property or your freedom.

Not a government mistake, but it appears to be several intelligence failures and not one pension has been stripped from the lay abouts in the alphabet soup of extra-Constitutional agencies that failed so miserably.

Or, as the gun culture so distinctly pointed out during the 'school shooting wave': there is a defect in the culture that runs and hopes that they are spared rather than rushing the assailants, while the government protectors, in the case of Columbine, federal SWAT agents hid behind cars while children bled to death. The end result of gun control is genocide, used metaphorically to explain three planes hijacked and used as missiles while the occupants hoped it was just a 'regular' hijacking.

Todd Beamer has done more to make us safer, than a hundred LTs pontificating on the Internet about 'reshaping' the Middle East. What a bunch of crap, but then that is the point.

Militarism is not conservatism. That the militarists may yet sacrifice Bush's re-election is the truly scary part of the collective fanaticism that loves tanks and bombs and "creative destruction" (Italian fascistphile, Michael Ledeen's phrase).