And the question is, "Do I feel safer?"   No! I feel much less safe as a result of the USA's pre-emptive war of aggression on a country that has done absolutely nothing to realistically threaten the USA. I feel a lot less safe now when I go to the USA too, because it's a country in the grip of fear-based propaganda that is right out of control. Your democracy is vanishing, Bill, in the name of Homeland Security.

If pre-emptive war is considered justifiable by one nation, it will be considered so by others.

Pre-emptive war IS terrorism. Your government has practiced terrorism before too...in Vietnam, in the Phillipines, in Nicaraugua, in El Salvador, and in many, many other places. Terrorizing those who will not cooperate is its stock in trade. Your goverment was tried and found guilty by the World Court in the 1980's for doing just that in Nicaragua....and totally ignored that ruling. What does that tell the World at large? That your government is an outlaw. The opinion of the World means no more to the USA than it did to Hitler or Stalin. All that matters to the USA is firepower, and you guys have got it coming out your ears.

I have felt a lot less safe for quite some time now, even in a relatively safe place like Canada. If my government were not quietly complicit in selling your military all the arms it wants and providing you with natural resources at a good price, we would probably have been taken over openly by now too, under some pretext. (You may not know it, but Canada is a very significant arms supplier to the US military. We've got lots of high tech industry here making stuff for American wars, whether our people support those wars or not.) That's the great thing about free enterprise...it doesn't really give a damn whose hand it places the murder weapon in as long as it makes the sale.

You can honor God and Life...or you can honor the dollar. Guess which one it is in America?

- LH