..or is it possible you are mocking one of the more delusional ones here who says GWB is "stupid and dangerous" and thinks our rights are being poured down the drain. Paranoia accounts for that type of thinking.

While I am so tired of our government and have been for years, has anyone given any thought as to what might have caused the annual terriost attacks against us to halt. Ones like the Saudi barracks, the Kuwait barracks, a couple of our Embasies, the USS Cole, etc.?

Not far from wjhere I live, all this "illegal" spying caused a truck driver on the Interstate to be stopped subsequently admitted to his part in a plot to blow up the Brooklyn bridge. Of mideastern descent and was driving East.