[Well I'm glad you feel safer. In europe we had a '311' in madrid exactly one and a half years later, and the threat is going on. In Holland too there have been a few arrest of suspects preparing a hit on various important buildings like our national airport. More or less the same reports from various other european countries. I truly can't say we feel safer.]

I note that you "can't say" on most of these items you post. All you can offer is puzzlement.

[And I doubt that any american citizen feels safer. Before 911 they felt immune for terrorism on this scale, because it did not happen before in their own country. 911 made an end to this conclusion and all americans realized that the time of safety within their own country had changed radically.]

Well, I am an American citizen, and I feel safer now that we have done the things I alluded to, I've also talked to hundreds who feel the same, so there goes your argument.

[I find it very ignorant of people thinking they can weed out terrorism by just military power: Very, very short sighted. ]

Don't remember saying only a military strategy, that might be because that's not what I said. I simply said if we weren't strong, we'd have problems.

[Bush is not your first man, but rather a puppet (how could he with the intelligence of a peanut?). Who is? Good question...]

Care to offer some proof? I didn't think so, just trying to be "smarter" by playing to "facts" that "everyone" is aware of. Facts that don't exist, that is.

[The US is a member of NATO and the UN. If you're a member, you have to play the rules, or simply leave. The UN was right all along the way. There is/was no evidence of WMD in iraq. The US ignored because of their flood of testosterone. Now you're left with a record breaking dept and presence in two very unstable countries from which you cannot withdraw, sucking up even more money. So what did it gain? Reduced threat to terrorism ? I doubt.]

The UN is a very corrupt organization. I'm still wondering why we belong? As for wmd's the jury is still out. This latest deal about the missing weapons, may have been wmds that were moved before the US hit the deck in Iraq. Time may tell, then again, it may not. It's conjecture on either side of the argument though. As for the UN dictating to the US, when we can defend ourselves, hopefully that will NEVER happen. We are a sovereign country and can defend ourselves without begging the UN, particularly when it is somewhat controlled by third world countries.

John