Different ways of damage, Guest. The terrorists have killed people and destroyed property in a moment of drama.

Bush et al are digging into the foundations of the Constitution, trashing the environment, and doing their best to send us back socially to the days before FDR. (Don't know how far back; at least to Hoover's administration, in some ways to King John Lackland's)

You know the list. Indefinite imprisonment at the desire of the President, allowing mining companies to gouge off mountaintops to fill in valleys and smother streams-- on and on. As you say these are things he did by taking advantage of our wounding. They are things the terrorists couldn't have done by themselves.

It won't take long for the lack of restrictions on corporations and the environmental damage alone will kill more people than 911.

And he's going to be a miserable king to live under.

Bush's damage is less dramatic, but deeper, if he has his way. And he's put a long-lasting hurt on the country already.

Gotta go. I seem to have caught a virus of some kind. And none of this is intended to mean I think Kerry is our savior; he's just less of an immediate threat.

clint