[Miss Marple]

I imagine that the Bush/Cheney guy was fed a soothing line about the "Freedom Center." I heard some of the early proponents of the museum pontificating on a couple of interview shows, and they went on and on about how it was so important to tell the "Story of Freedom." Intellectually lazy and naive people assumed that this was going to be something like an American history lesson with exhibits similar to the D-Day Museum.

It wasn't until Ms. Burlingame got involved and the web site got started that the public found out what was really going to be in the exhibits. The list of those involved told me all I needed to know.

She is quite right about people losing their anger and clarity that they had right after 9/11. We knew the leftists were not going to stick with the President, but quite a few on the right seem to suddenly have other priorities. We are still at war, and that should be our first concern.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yup. They had the NPR crowd sold. Nice that it won't happen.

[MizSterious]

Yes, we are still at war--and yet so few seem to be consciously aware of the fact. Ok, I'm "older than dirt" so maybe it's a generation thing, but every time this point is brought up, I always think that if this generation had fought WWII, we would be speaking either Japanese or German.