I agree with Micheal Moore in that the present Administration is using "terror" to retain their power base. It's a push-button word that has no real meaning.
If you refer to Al Quaeda, that's one thing. But to use the word just to make people hysterical so that they will vote for you, that's reprehensible.

Al Quaeda is a threat but if anyone was listening to them they would have heard that they banded together for the purpose of protesting American troops on Muslim soil. That's what it's really all about. If it were British troops instead of American, they would have gone after Big Ben.

The deal is this. Many disgruntled Americans can't accept that fact that Vietnam was a debacle so they are angry they didn't win. The reason the Johnson and Nixon Adminstration lost the war in Vietnam is because they didn't understand that it was the people of that country who were defending it against an occupation.

The same is true of Iraqis. The Iraqis are the insurgents and the puppet Allawi doesn't represent their interests. Bush is occupying that country and has already lost because there is no freedom, democracy or anything resembling a contained society there. Only misguided military and sanguinary politicians who control Washington now.

In Afghanistan, they are growing plants to produce heroin. Who knows where bin Laden is now. There may be money available to finance furthur insurgencies thanks to Bush.

"Terror" is another one of those words polliticians throw around to scare people into submission.

The real "terror" is the fear that this Administration has created to make everyone hysterical and as a result impotent to do anything constructive.

Frank