[weegee]

Especially so in light of our current administration's fetish for spying on Americans< engaged international phonecalls with members of Al Qaeda without warrants and vitriolic attempts to silence critics by questioning their patriotism or intestinal fortitude.

Yes such find bootlicking pro-dictator critics as Cindy Sheehan. A woman who conveniently ignores her previous face to face meeting with President Bush. A woman who has said that she would've hit her son with their family vehicle to prevent him being sent to Iraq.

And Natelie Maines, the "why should anyone have to love this country" anti-patriot singer.

And Michael Moore, "they are freedom fighters" "and they will WIN"...

I querstion the intellectual maturity of this writer.

[thehumanlynx]

agree. I dont know why in the world they care so much about someone being surveilled who is taking phone calls from Tehran or Afgahnistan on a regular basis to discuss new and exciting ways to kill/maim me and my family.

There is a BIG problem coming, the sooner the loons stop ignoring it the better off we will all be.

From Five Minutes to Midnight

Observing the events of today—the hesitation and uncertainty, the stubborn clinging to the fantasy that the enemy can be appeased if we just keep talking and find the right diplomatic solution—I now feel that, for the first time, I really understand the leaders of the 1930s. Their illusion that Hitler could be appeased has always seemed, in historical hindsight, to be such a willful evasion of the facts that I have never grasped how it was possible for those men to deceive themselves. But I can now see how they clung to their evasions because they could not imagine anything worse than a return to the mass slaughter of the First World War. They wanted to believe that something, anything could prevent a return to war. What they refused to imagine is that, in trying to avoid the horrors of the previous war, they were allowing Hitler to unleash the much greater horrors of a new war.

Today's leaders and commentators have less excuse. The "horror" they are afraid of repeating is the insurgency we're fighting in Iraq—a war whose cost in lives, dollars, and resolve is among the smallest America has ever had to pay. And it takes no great feat of imagination to project how much more horrible the coming conflict will be if we wait on events long enough for Iran to arm itself with nuclear technology. Among the horrific consequences is the specter of a new Holocaust, courtesy of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Stop worrying about offending some folks at the expense of the safety of the nation.