". . . when we lined up behind President Bush. . . ." Sorry, Matt, but "we" didn't all line up behind President Bush. I stand by what I said above. The response to 9/11 should have been something amounting to a police action, i.e., tracking down the guilty parties and bringing them to justice. Granted, this would be extremely difficult to do. Nevertheless! Bush took the easy way and simply declared war on what looked like the most likely target. That it would result in "collateral damage" should come as no surprise to anyone.

Whereas the polls claim that the whole country is "lining up" behind Bush, there is a substantial number of people who are aware that, from the start of his tenure as President, Bush was in for some pretty heavy weather. It may seem callous to say, but 9/11 was the best thing that could have happened to him. The collective knee-jerk kicked him up in the polls, and the international situation creates enough distraction that it's allowing him to attempt to push things through on the domestic front that will return this country to the nineteenth century. But not everybody is fooled.

Don Firth