I urge everyone to read Dubya's speech- several times. The text is easily available in lots of places. The empty platitudes and mindless assumptions and over-simplifications come across much more clearly in print. "Carrying a big dick"' as someone here has already said.

So he was able to read what someone else had written for him off the teleprompter without screwing up too badly (not much he can do about the irrepressible smirk, apparently) but so what? We're still at the point where every time he manages to go to the bathroom without pissing on his shoes he gets universal accolades. WHY?

The speech itself is just that- words. Lets wait and see what the administration actually DOES.

Paul "Mad Dog" Wolfowitz is still performing his rendition of Randy Newman's "Lets Drop The Big One Now"- no point in just bombing Afghanistan back into the stone age- lets do Iran, Iraq & anyone else that pisses him off while we're at it! Tom Ridge's new Committee of State Security (soon to be re-named the People's Commissariat of State Security) is only getting started- who knows where the new secret police will take us? There's already talk in legal circles (and several articles) about courts being much more favorable towards Racial Profiling now- since we need to go after them nefarious A-Rabs! and more of the same to come.

Terrorism may not be the only danger we're facing, folks- and if we're not careful it may turn out in the long run to be the lesser danger.

Best, Greg