You're right, Doug R, all good folks. Thanks for being positive about the avalanche of liberals here(of which I might be considered one...although I'm a bit more radical than most "liberals", seeing I don't even believe in political parties of any stripe whatsoever).

I generally like the Democrats a little better than the Republicans, but wouldn't vote for either one of them.

Curiously enough, the Democrats seem to get involved in just as many foreign wars and interventions as the Republicans, contrary to what someone said earlier. Bush attacked Iraq (After assuring them through the American ambassador in Baghdad that the USA had no concerns about a forthcoming Iraqui attack on Kuwait!!! Saddam believed him...what a sucker!). Then there was the totally phony propaganda story about Iraqui soldiers turning off babies' incubators in the Kuwaiti hospital...even Amnesty International was fooled by that one...what a public relations coup! What a crock.

Then Clinton bombed the aforementioned pharmaceutical factory in Africa, some other small places in Asia, and finally launched the Kosovo intervention. I'm not going to argue the pros and cons of Kosovo here (God help us!), but it looks to me like there's precious little difference in warmaking tendencies between the Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats TALK more peaceably, but in practice they are virtually indistinguishable from the GOP. No surprise to me. It's someone else you don't hear about (and don't get to vote for) who calls the shots on all of these decisions.