What a shame that this country seems hell-bent on giving away that and other freedoms for the chimera of security.



Troll,

I couldn't agree with you more. The current effort by our vaunted representatives is to make The Patriot Act permanent so that our freedom of speech will be even more curtailed than it is.

Time will tell what the outcome of pulling the plug on the Iraqi government will be. I wish there had been a better transition plan, but the ground truth is what it is and they are going to have organize themselves fast to replace the basic functions that have now been removed.

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