[Brad from Tennessee]

Sadly, as others have said above, it's going to take another 9/11 to bring people back to reality. The news media spins an artificial reality and politicians feel compelled to play the game, at least part of the time, to stay in office. I agree that the war has not been very well sold to the public. As a result our enemies in Iraq--whose existence has always hung by a thin thread--are emboldened and invigorated by our national doubts and skittishness.

[MaineVoter2002]

The news media spins an artificial reality and politicians feel compelled to play the game

Even worse than that. I'm far from being a Clinton fan but do you remember when the USS Cole was bombed and on Veteran's Day Clinton wanted to speak about the Americans who lost their lives and the Voice Of America (supported by OUR tax dollars) refused to allow Clinton to mourn the deaths of our military men on the VOA because it would not be fair to the Palestinians who had recently died in some unrelated attack around the same time. The VOA felt that to mention the US Military deaths in the USS Cole would be offensive to Palestinians.

We have a MAJOR problem folks. It's NOT just the MSM