Hey,
this is a reply to tw and all others who are chiming in on the Iraq-war angle: there was a lengthy thread very recently concerning terrorism in the US, the American response, and war on Iraq.
It was buried quite deeply in the 'Bush Gored' threat, but went fairly in-depth regarding those issues. Please everybody, have a look at <a href="http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?threadid=2158&perpage=15&pagenumber=2">this</a>, starting on page 2 of that thread. At least skim it. There is a lot of good (and bad) opinion in it, not least of all my "paranoid" comments.
Regarding the 'war' with Iraq - I don't believe Iraq is now, or at any point in the near future a threat to the US. Political reasons are at the forefront of the PR war against Iraq, as Republican campaigners happily admitted that the longer they keep beating the war drums, the more likely it is that they'll win the fall elections, having dominated the news with Iraq stories, rather than the failing economy or the rapidly-vanishing personal freedoms and rights.
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